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AS28: Misogyny in Atheism with Greta Christina

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I asked Greta Christina about the rift in atheism between feminists and for lack of a better term, anti-feminists. Greta provided a very sobering insight into the difficulty she and other women in atheism have faced. You can find Greta's blog here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/ And her book here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2014/03/07/coming-out-atheist-ordering-info/ Then, I talk about … Continue reading AS28: Misogyny in Atheism with Greta Christina

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hey my brilliant listeners today we continue the discussion with Greta Christina and

0:35.5

then we're gonna have a lot of other content so it's not not all interview

0:40.2

so it's episode 28 and my name is Thomas Smith as is the norm and if my name was

0:48.4

norm then I could say it was really terrible joke so in episode, in this part of the interview, I asked

0:56.4

Greta I wanted to know because this is a topic I do want to tackle and

1:00.8

that is feminism and and in some ways misogyny in the atheist community.

1:07.0

And I've sort of played the outsider a bit because I am I mean I came into this you guys probably know I mean I haven't

1:15.7

been real active in the community I've been podcasting podcasting podcasting and that's

1:20.1

left me not a lot of time but as I've started to get more active and at least network more,

1:25.7

follow more people, I have noticed the divide that probably already of everyone knows about with you know there there are women a lot of women

1:36.4

in atheism who feel excluded and you feel like there's misogyny misogyny problem and there's a lot of anger and there's a lot of I mean

1:47.3

there's anger at Richard Dawkins there's anger at people not doing enough at

1:57.0

conferences to combat sexual assault that kind of thing. And I really because of the nature of my show and what I want to do. I'm approaching this as as as as

2:06.2

as unbiased as I can. I really and I asked her you'll hear I asked Gret, sort of as an outsider, as someone who's sort of,

2:14.8

I'm finding my way in the movement, kind of. I mean, I'm finding, you know, all these dynamics

2:21.0

and what's happening with feminism. I really didn't know much about it

2:24.3

until recently I started reading more into it. And so I just asked her, I just wanted

2:29.1

her opinion and it turned out great. The way she answered and everything she said was amazing. I don't, there

2:37.0

might be minor points of disagreement and I'll check in with you guys after the the interview segment here it's about 20 minutes and I'll sort of do a

2:47.1

analysis I think but it was fascinating I got so I learned so much and I hope that you will sort of join me in

2:55.8

approaching this because there's what I'm trying to say is there's a there's a ton of

3:00.0

bias there's a ton of anger and there's people on both of the other side which I'm not trying to blame anybody I mean I females who are

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