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In reply to the discussion: Why the New Atheism is a boys' club? [View all]Quartermass
(457 posts)24. If women can have their own clubs, why can't men?
If you do a Google, you'll find out that women have a lot of clubs and stuff that are for women only.
So that tells me that some women just can't stand it when men keep their own company.
But if it's okay for women to keep their own company then it should be okay for men to keep their own company. Anything else is a double standard.
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i pulled fromt he article that it is just more misogyny even in the atheist realm
seabeyond
Dec 2011
#3
No, I had the same reaction as you did at first. The article is kind of clumsily written, and it's
iris27
Dec 2011
#21
I doubt that the reason women aren't taken seriously is because of Miss USA contestants. (nt)
redqueen
Dec 2011
#28
Richard Dawkins had some scathing remarks to say about Women's Studies departments.
Boston_Chemist
Dec 2011
#26