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In reply to the discussion: Dominant Male Atheist Leaders Seem to Have a Problem with Women [View all]mr blur
(7,753 posts)Atheist don't have or need leaders to tell us what to do. You're thinking of religion. If you're concerned about sexist, misogynistic attitudes then, again, you're talking about religion. Worst are the followers of Islam. Not far behind are the Catholics and the Jewish religion (NOT Jewish people, the religion, designed to keep women in what is considered their place).
Yes, no doubt some atheists are sexist or misogynist (just as some of us are black, Asian, Russian, gay, transgendered, old, young, smart, stupid - you know... people). It is a problem with societies as a whole not one instigated by Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris. And yes, it should be pointed out where it occurs but to act as if society as a whole treated women fairly until a couple of people who happen to be atheists said something insensitive is not only to ignore the real problem but to play right into the hands of those pushing this agenda.
It's not atheists who are keeping women down and treating them as inferiors; it's not atheists who are beheading people or stoning 'adulterous' women to death or abusing children and protecting the rapists.