Atheist Misogyny Again

This BuzzFeed article has arisen again, and even though I referenced it before, I reference it once again. This is because the issue of Atheist community is still a hot button topic, and misogyny by Atheists is the activating push.

It actually goes slightly further than just that. The Atheist is theoretically not constrained to any specific belief set or behavior code. So the give and take within the community might be expected to not be constrained either. And perhaps a decade ago it was not. The boys could and did express all conceivable forms of speech, regardless of taste or moral compunction. But then came the feminists.

Feminists are not constrained in their thoughts, speech or actions either. However, they place many rules on their environment. When they invaded the Atheist/Free Thought community, they were appalled at the behaviors and speech of the previously mostly male brotherhood of Atheist/FreeThinkers. So they have tried to assert control over the previously unconstrained "conversation", which means new rules being imposed on the anarchists: mostly "Don'ts" which are placed on the "FreeThinkers" against their will. Since then, all Hell has broken loose inside the A/FT "community", including the discussion of whether speech and moral anarchists can even have "community" in their lexicon at all. After all, how does a community form solely around a rejection of a hated concept with nothing else beside that in common?

The article at BuzzFeed is not clearly unbiased, but it does report some of the inside goings-on that are transparent to the outside.

But of considerable interest is the comment section, where the squabbles and vitriol are playing out in public. There is actually a perverted sense of community in this - that of Will To Power, the drive to control the community narrative by driving out those who disagree with the specifics of factional declarations of Truth (Even in a mutual culture of "no truth"). It resolves to an Atheist War On Each Other, with sharks eating sharks and blood in the water. So it is a community activity, best viewed from the outside.