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[–]WildApples 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think this one captures it quite well:

I don't expect most men to help women. I'd settle for them not calling up a pitchfork-wielding mob & screaming "take the women!" as they flee. Dawkins shoving women at advancing torches & crying "Republican bigots!" is a self-comforting lie: "They were probably witches, anyway."

https://twitter.com/fem_mb/status/1381789707055595522

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly.

Another thing about Dawkins' Republican bigot comment that bothers me is that what exactly is "bigoted" about what the Republicans are trying to do, i.e., save women's sports for women and keep confused, mostly gay, kids from becoming expensive medical experiments for life?

There's nothing bigoted about either of those goals. Instead they are very sane and compassionate.

And as far as taking the side of the trans activists during the bathroom bills war, Dawkins is a fucking EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST - he knows that only female humans can be forced to reproduce, and are, so sex-segregated spaces are essential for women to be able to participate in the public sphere.

Therefore, I can only conclude that Dawkins is either a bloody idiot, ignorant of the realities of human reproduction, or a male chauvinist pig, or both.