What Sam Harris Doesn't Know About Women (Condensed)

Another week, another atheist demands we call his sexism not-sexism.

Another week, another dudely atheist whose supposed rationalism can’t seem to stop him from engaging in emotion-driven temper tantrums because those mean ladies insist you actually apply the same rational lens to sexism as you do religion. This week’s contestant is Sam Harris, who was criticized for suggesting that it’s women’s biological inferiority to men that drives women out of the atheist movement and not, say, the widespread acceptance of sexism that makes women feel unwelcome.

“I think it may have to do with my personal slant as an author, being very critical of bad ideas. This can sound very angry to people..People just don’t like to have their ideas criticized. There’s something about that critical posture that is to some degree instrinsically [sic] male and more attractive to guys than to women,” he said. “The atheist variable just has this – it doesn’t obviously have this nurturing, coherence-building extra estrogen vibe that you would want by default if you wanted to attract as many women as men.”

His theory that men are inherently better at being able to take rough-and-tumble criticism and women are inherently reluctant to participate in such a thing was immediately put to the test, as his comments received quite a bit of rough-and-tumble criticism from women who, defying their estrogenic destinies, told him where to shove his gender essentialist ideas. He, in turn, defied his testosteronic heritage by getting his fee-fees hurt.

Sam is used to making unsupported and unsupportable claims without any pushback from his own side of the fence. But this time he really stepped in it by making stupid claims about women in general. Yet his ensuing defense is even more stupid, and Marcotte shreds him. Women are equal in every way; Sam should know that about Atheist/Feminist women. He deserves whatever he gets on this one - he brought their wrath upon himself. He'll be under the bus for a while. At least until he belly-crawls before the RadFems and acknowledges their superior form of equality and his own sins.