Should a better question to"What's a woman?"be"What's a female brain"?

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Tell me about it. I’m a left-wing atheist and I’ve watched lots of my atheist friends fall completely for this shit, and the fervour with which they defend their new belief is every bit as zealous as the creationists and Westboro Baptists that they used to laugh at.

[–]bopomofodojo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've long thought about that transition of the online New Atheist community and how it basically split around 2013 into the Alt-Right flavour and the Alt-Left (a.k.a. TRA/hyperprogressive) wings. Both of which now dominate politics.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The split wasn’t really Alt-Left / Alt-Right, it was Feminist / Not Feminist.

People like Rebecca Watson, PZ Myers, Matt Dillahunty et al achieved levels of clout way beyond what they should have from making wild claims about sexual harassment, racism and various other isms and phobias at Atheist gatherings and community. People who wouldn’t play ball and were unapologetic about it, like Dawkins, were denounced.

The feminist faction seemed to adopt the transgender ideology without questioning it at all, which is hilarious for a bunch of self-proclaimed sceptics.

[–]LtGreenCo 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I remember when woke ideology first appeared on my radar. It wasn't called "woke" then; I don't think "SJW" was even a thing yet either. It was simply Feminism, or I guess "Intersectional Feminism". It started with Occupy Wall Street -- that movement got totally overtaken by feminists. I didn't think anything of it at the time because OWS protesters were annoying as shit and I didn't care what happened to them.

But then one day Feminism/Social Justice almost overnight completely hijacked the skeptic/atheism communities. And as a skeptic and atheist myself it blew me away - I couldn't understand how anyone claiming to be on the side of science, objectivism and reason could fall so deep and so quickly for that insane and illogical pseudoreligious dogma. So I divorced myself from the "Atheist" label and just started calling myself a "Non-Theist" to avoid embarrassment by association. Still, at that point I had no idea what we were in for.

And then the safe-space college kids started making waves. Having nervous breakdowns over "microaggressions" and saying the most insane shit to their professors. Refusing to go to class and demanding their universities create safe spaces and fire staff they didn't like. I laughed it off though, thinking "haha wait until these little turds try and get a job in the real world where there are no safe spaces". But they totally did, and I'm not laughing now.