Author: Jennifer McCreight
Jennifer McCreight blogs about atheism, feminism, science, and sex at freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag. She has served on the Secular Student Alliance board and contributed to The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas. More magazine recently named her one of the top “New Feminists.” She is a PhD candidate in human genetics and evolution at the University of Washington.
Sexism: It’s Not Mission Drift!
Recently within the atheist community, sexism has become a hot-button issue–or more accurately, a molten-lava/center-of-the-sun issue. Whether it’s the religious Right’s push to restrict women’s reproductive rights or internal debates about sexual harassment policies at atheist/skeptical conferences, sexism has become the topic. And this has left a lot of atheists scratching their heads. “Why are …