MS. magazine can't find any female Gnu Atheists...

[onager]

According to a recent article, Will “New Atheism” Make Room For Women?

No, the article concludes, because Gnu Atheism is dominated completely by Old White Men like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, et. al. Sam Harris barely squeaks in as a Male Gnu-Atheist Oppressor because he's only 40.

And most atheists are just like Our Maximum Leaders - old, male and white.

But then, you KNOW you're in trouble when the very first line of an article says atheism is a religion. And double that when the article references Conservapedia as a reference source about atheism.

The awesome Jen McCreight over at BlagHag very quickly slaughtered this squawking turkey:

"Yet no women are currently recognized as leaders or even mentioned as a force within the movement."

Um... what? No leaders in the movement? How about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, highly successful author and woman's right activist? Or Lori Lipman Brown, founding director of Secular Coalition for America? Or Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-founder and current co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation? Or Debbie Goddard, campus coordinator at the Center for Inquiry? Or Susan Jacoby, director of New York's Center for Inquiry? Or Wendy Kaminer, Secular Coalition for America Advisory Board Member? Or Lyz Liddell, campus organizer for the Secular Student Alliance? Or Amanda Metskas, Head Director of Camp Quest? Or Ariane Sherine, creator of the Atheist Bus Campaign?

And those are just some of the "official" leaders. You just wanted forces within the movement? How about the dozens and dozens of female authors, journalists, bloggers, videobloggers, podcasters, and comedians who you just conveniently forgot about?

I think you get my point.

http://www.blaghag.com/2010/11/does-media-really-care-where-atheist.html

Happy ending: MS. mag has invited McCreight to rebut the original article.

[Grey]

1. Dumb as a post.....

Not you, them.
What Movement? It's just people stating what they believe or don't believe.
Why does stating what I do/don't believe have to be a movement and/or thing?
They need to 'get over themselves', Thanks

[humblebum]

8. Nope. No such thing as a Gnu Atheist movement.

http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/

[Goblinmonger]

2. It's because we sacrifice them all to our god, Dawkins.

Oops, I may have said too much.

[Iggo]

3. Ixnay! Ixnay!

Ixnay on the acrifice-say!

[BurtWorm]

4. Or Ellen Johnson, longtime president of American Atheists.

And current ED of Enlighten the Vote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson

[laconicsax]

5. +1

[chaplainM]

6. Does Ms. still have a horoscope page? eom.

[iris27]

7. Hirsi Ali was immediately who I thought of.

She's harsher on Islam than any of the rest (with good personal reason, IMO).

Stupid, stupid article.