You think you can’t see anything new from the Watsonistas that can appall you any more than you already feel, but they are the gift that keeps on giving. USA Today decides to feed more oxygen to the psychopath and the toilet slave (aka Becky and The Naked Emperor) in an article you’re probably best off avoiding unless you are feeling absolutely serene, in control and relaxed; and then only if you are happy to have your entire day ruined. Otherwise, you will seriously want to throw your ‘puter across the room.
The article is beyond merely appalling or deliberate propaganda manipulation, though it is both. You have to wonder where to lay the blame for this psychedelic nonsense – at least part of the fault has to lie with the author Kimberly Winston1 who is not very likely to have either sympathy or empathy with godlessness, and, whether consciously or not, her negative skewing of the article manages to find an excess that the Gruesome Twosome would never have been able to manage on their own. From the very first line, you know you are on a roller coaster in the opposite direction from anything that even remotely reflects reality –
Atheists address sexism issues
(RNS) Rebecca Watson meant it as a funny story, almost an aside.
Hysterically funny. Watson never meant it. It took us misogynist assholes to blow it all out of proportion. AS USUAL. It soon returns to familiar territory though –
Hers and other atheist/skeptic blogs were soon flooded with comments. Many women told of receiving unwanted sexual advances at freethinker gatherings. Some men, meanwhile, ridiculed Watson as overly sensitive or worse — or threatened her with rape, mutilation and murder.
The demarcation is made entirely clear – boys on one side (the crazy one), girls on the other (the long suffering martyrs). Clear gender apartheid, especially when it comes to points of view. All women evidently agree in unison. At least on the bright side, there’s no mention of gender traitors. It then proceeds to completely garble and misrepresent Dawkins –
And when best-selling atheist author Richard Dawkins chimed in, the incident went nuclear.
“Stop whining, will you,” Dawkins wrote in one of three comments on Pharyngula, a popular freethinker blog, comparing her experience to that of a fictional Muslim woman who had been beaten by her husband and genitally mutilated. “For goodness’ sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.”
Myers wears his SNAG second skin with pride –
P.Z. Myers, Pharyngula’s founding author, a 25-year veteran of the atheist community and an ardent supporter of Watson, said when he is asked to speak at events he routinely asks if women will be invited to speak… “What we would really like to do is educate these men to be a little more sensitive.”
Translation: we need more blacklists and re-education gulags. It then closes with the same old patented slave mentality whine from Watson –
“I thought it was a safe space,” Watson said of the freethought2 community. “The biggest lesson I have learned over the years is that it is not a safe space and we have a lot of growing to do. The good news is there are a lot of people within the community who are interested in making it better and getting rid of our prejudices.”
The absolute shamelessness of the psychopath.
But what can you do? This is precisely like dealing creationists. You can rebut and refute and challenge and utterly deconstruct the nonsense into the archetypical fascist ideology it is until the cows come home. And all they do is pack up their freak-show and find a fresh bunch of dupes that will provide them with a blank canvas where they can regurgitate the crap from scratch as though nothing has ever been said. Ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
Yes Becky. There is a long way to go. But the upside is, the longer you maintain this farce, the harder the crash will be when it all collapses on your pudgy, pink and entitled ass.
1 – Winston’s books are Faith Beyond Faith Healing: Finding Hope After Shattered Dreams, a treatise on why when faith healing fails, it’s because of god’s bigger picture, and Fabric of Faith: A Guide to the Prayer Quilt Ministry, about, err… quilts. And praying. And praying while you make quilts.
2 – Appalling how they even dare to use the word. They are its antithesis.
September 17, 2011 at 2:08 am
“What we would really like to do is educate these men to be a little more sensitive.”
Such a joke. Reminds me of the time on an atheist forum where a black gal in her 20’s started a thread whining how she was so smart and great that it was really frustrating to her how she couldn’t find any guy decent enough to be in a relationship with her. And immediately the other members, men and women both, flocked to her thread, ’til it was pages and pages long, supporting her in her frustration, and telling her that she was right, she really, really WAS all that, and that the men she was interested in were so not worthy of her, and that they just didn’t know what could be done about though, ’cause guys are just like that.
A short time later a young Greek man started a thread voicing his frustration at not being able to find any gal to try for a relationship with. Without hesitation, the other members there, men and women both, just piled on, telling him again and again and again that he was almost certain to become a rapist. The thread went at least as many pages as the gal’s thread had. I was horrified. I didn’t even try to comment, it was such a brutal mob scene.
“Faith: A Guide to the Prayer Quilt Ministry, about, err… quilts. And praying. And praying while you make quilts.”
Well, yeah, That sort of thing has kept me out of joining quilt clubs over the years. Maybe I should start my own, exclusively for atheist misogynists.
September 21, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Citation needed.
September 17, 2011 at 4:36 am
Ug. This is even worse than the Gawker article. Does anyone else know more about this Kimberly Winston charter? She seems to have at best a tenuous grasp on reality?
September 17, 2011 at 11:31 am
I gave a link to her site, and her literary resume is in the footnotes. Here is her site again –
http://www.kimberlywinston.com/
No, I don’t think she occupies the same reality space as most of us.
September 17, 2011 at 7:41 am
If you are an atheist leader, and are going to be interviewed by a journalist who’s written such books, why would you bitch even a tiny bit about in-fights? (even if the in-fights were known about). Why wouldnt you just gloss over it, and say something boilerplate, like Susan Jacoby and Annie Gaylor did? I can understand the sociopath doing it. But the baboon king also? oh well..I guess at this stage I shouldnt expect any better.
In the world of American sports and super-inflated-celebrity-sportsmen, whenever anyone takes in-fights to the public/media, they get their ass handed to them by the veterans. Everybody here knows that, but not our special couple.
September 17, 2011 at 11:36 am
If you are an atheist leader, and are going to be interviewed by a journalist who’s written such books, why would you bitch even a tiny bit about in-fights?
Third-tier celebrity validation. Why, when USA Today comes calling, it just proves how right you were all along. It’s serious news, after all.
September 17, 2011 at 11:46 am
What’s there to not understand about the Baboon King? Expediency is the guiding principle for his every action. He is a whore that has been purchased – he still perceives some kind of personal gain in supporting the slave revolt.
Just look how he thanked Dawkins after Dawkins gave Myers a leg up from (deserved) obscurity to (undeserved) pop stardom. Dropped him like a hot potato and spat on him the second it was advantageous to do so.
September 17, 2011 at 11:50 am
@Stephen – shame News of the World is no more eh?
September 17, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Indeed. At least News of the World had a modicum of honesty in its standards. No affectation of purpose.
September 22, 2011 at 12:00 am
“Hysterically funny. Watson never meant it. It took us misogynist assholes to blow it all out of proportion.”
If you watch the original video it really was a rather unimportant aside. Go back and watch it instead of going by the third and fourth hand sources you’re using now. All she originally said was that being asked to a guy’s hotel room at 4:00 in the morning was a bit creepy.
The whole issue got blown out of proportion later with both sides going over the top with their reactions, but the initial comment was pretty innocuous.
October 1, 2011 at 12:53 am
What started “Elevatorgate” was all the self-righteous moralizing and other bad behaviors that stemmed from the incident, not the incident itself. Perhaps you’re intentionally trying to confuse readers so that they’ll continue to think that the other is “just overreacting,” but I’d prefer to think you’re dense rather than dishonest.
September 22, 2011 at 1:53 am
Quack quack quack quack quack Watsonistas. Quack quack quack, PZ Myers. SQWAK!!! Quack, quack quack quack. Quack quack quack. Quack psychopath quack quack quack. Quack quack quack, Rebecca Watson, QUACK!!! QUACK QUACK QUACK!!! Becky quack quack! Quack ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
September 22, 2011 at 2:02 am
Believe it or not, but you’ve just raised the standard of Watsonista contribution here. Curiously refreshing.