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fucking what is elevator gate
"Sex positive" sex pestery among thirsty New Atheist convention goers, and a feeemale daring to state she felt uncomfortable being propositioned in a closed elevator at 4am far from home, lead to Dawkins' notorious "Dear Muslima" letter.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Elevatorgate
I dare to suspect that the Youtube atheist fad of "debunking" creationists shifted gears to being really mad at feeemales and stayed there, only expanding the rage to SJWs/wokeness/DEI
after that moment.
yikes
You'd suspect correctly. There was some base misogyny there to build on, see TheAmazingAtheist and the disgusting things he said about SA including to an actual SA victim.
I don't want to repeat that vile piece of shit's words, but I do remember them clearly.
I didn't realize I remembered them until you said you remembered them and then I also remembered exactly what the words were. Wild how such vile sentiments can embed themselves in your brain like that, isn't it?
Amazing atheist and several other atheists did wonders for the proliferation of garbage reactionary content on youtube
Wö-men. Men of wö.
"Men of woe"
Insert boomer wife hatred jokes here
Avoid going down the elevatorgate rabbit hole if you value your sanity. The same people involved in elevatorgate started GamerGate.
I hear that thunderfoot (don't look that up) broke his brain on Brexit and Covid so now he's back on center-left but likely still a misogynist. Dawkins, Ham Sarris, Shermer, Jillete et al. just got old and feeble or outright ded like Randii and Dennett. They only pop in now and then to say something like "more jews won nobel prizes than muslims so we should exterminate all muslims" which they've been doing since GWOT
there were just a few good ones, like AronRa.
i understand everything now