Comments on: Dispatches from the Global Atheist Convention http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2012/dispatches-from-the-global-atheist-convention/ Fighting fashionable nonsense Wed, 22 May 2013 11:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Ophelia Benson http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2012/dispatches-from-the-global-atheist-convention/#comment-169532 Ophelia Benson Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:34:22 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=46376#comment-169532 <p>It's not you. I have the same problem when people (well, men) say things like "we have to reach out to women, we have to include women in the movement." Who's we, Kemosabe? You're not "the movement" more than I am; you don't own it any more than I do; you're not the insider while I'm the outsider.</p> <p>So yes, it does.</p> It’s not you. I have the same problem when people (well, men) say things like “we have to reach out to women, we have to include women in the movement.” Who’s we, Kemosabe? You’re not “the movement” more than I am; you don’t own it any more than I do; you’re not the insider while I’m the outsider.

So yes, it does.

]]> By: Sili http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2012/dispatches-from-the-global-atheist-convention/#comment-168768 Sili Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:28:37 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=46376#comment-168768 <blockquote> The GAC started with the explicit mention of how feminism was aligning more closely with atheistic objectives, </blockquote> Is it just me, or does this not already betray a certain selfcentredness on GAC's part? Why isn't it atheism aligning with feminism?

The GAC started with the explicit mention of how feminism was aligning more closely with atheistic objectives,

Is it just me, or does this not already betray a certain selfcentredness on GAC’s part? Why isn’t it atheism aligning with feminism?

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