In the parallel-issues department, here’s an interesting narrative in Slate by Rebecca Watson about the experiences of herself and other women with sexism offline and on in the skeptic/atheist community.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/10/sexism_in_the_skeptic...
Among other things, her WP article has been vandalized (I won’t link to diffs ... anyone interested can look through the history).
I daresay that it makes Reddit, even in the wake of the Violentacrez reporting, look not so bad.
It has also drawn a lot more comments than the typical Slate article.
Daniel Case
It's kind of sad she has to start to by making statements that could be calculated to tarnish one group of skeptics; it's as if to say, I can sling insults as good as the next guy, so don't sling them at me, sling them at those other guys. Weird...
On 10/24/2012 11:49 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case wrote:
In the parallel-issues department, here's an interesting narrative in /Slate/ by Rebecca Watson about the experiences of herself and other women with sexism offline and on in the skeptic/atheist community. http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/10/sexism_in_the_skeptic... Among other things, her WP article has been vandalized (I won't link to diffs ... anyone interested can look through the history). I daresay that it makes Reddit, even in the wake of the Violentacrez reporting, look not so bad. It has also drawn a lot more comments than the typical /Slate/ article. Daniel Case