Alex Gabriel has an excellent, thorough, detailed, courteous reply to Paula Kirby.
He makes an important point at the beginning that has been steadfastly ignored both by Paula and by many of her supporters in this dispute.
… Read the restI know that, as I think your letter hints, feminist skeptics including at FreethoughtBlogs have disagreed with you before and may have been barbed. But I’d like to point out those comments were always qualified: PZ said FtB was criticised ‘by no less a person than Paula Kirby’; Rebecca Watson referred to ‘the esteemed Paula Kirby’; Ophelia, on the idea FtB was totalitarian, said ‘the sad thing is that it’s Paula Kirby calling us that’. I typically make
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