One reason that many women do not feel welcome in the atheist community is some atheists' various excuses du jour for justifying rape, pornography, and violence against women. Truly, in many ways atheism is as misogynistic as the religious fundamentalist zealot extremism that it claims to be better than.
Anyone else remember the postulate from a while back that tried to assert that rape against women is justified by evolution? I won't even bother to list logic-based arguments against this, because it is such a sick, vile, cruel notion that a horrific crime is in any way justified. I can only come to the conclusion that proponents of this crap do not possess any capacity for empathy or compassion whatsoever.
There are notorious bottom-feeders all over internet message boards that insist that the only reason women have a problem with sadomasochism or other violent sexual practices is because of religion. They conveniently blame antiquated notions of Puritanism, Christian oppression, ad nauseum.
They conveniently dismiss the fact that sex is a deeply personal, private issue.
They simply dismiss the fact that a woman, who is a human being, has 100 percent right to decide what happens to her own body, physically, sexually, medically. That is a human right. If she decides she does not want to do something, end of story.
It is not open to negotiation, compromise, or discussion.
The woman to whom that body belongs has the final say in what she does with it. Everyone else out there, including atheists, would do well to remember that.
Anyone else remember the postulate from a while back that tried to assert that rape against women is justified by evolution? I won't even bother to list logic-based arguments against this, because it is such a sick, vile, cruel notion that a horrific crime is in any way justified. I can only come to the conclusion that proponents of this crap do not possess any capacity for empathy or compassion whatsoever.
There are notorious bottom-feeders all over internet message boards that insist that the only reason women have a problem with sadomasochism or other violent sexual practices is because of religion. They conveniently blame antiquated notions of Puritanism, Christian oppression, ad nauseum.
They conveniently dismiss the fact that sex is a deeply personal, private issue.
They simply dismiss the fact that a woman, who is a human being, has 100 percent right to decide what happens to her own body, physically, sexually, medically. That is a human right. If she decides she does not want to do something, end of story.
It is not open to negotiation, compromise, or discussion.
The woman to whom that body belongs has the final say in what she does with it. Everyone else out there, including atheists, would do well to remember that.
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