Skepchick
Skepchick is an atheist website founded by Rebecca Watson which discusses atheism, feminism, science, and pseudoscience. Being an atheist website, Skepchick advocates evolutionary pseudoscience.
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Criticism of Skepchick
See: Elevatorgate and Atheism and women and Atheism and rape
Amanda Read wrote in the Washington Times that she believed Rebecca Watson and the writers at Shepchick were behaving hypocritically about the Elevatorgate controversy and declared:
| “ | The point is that because the issue is sexism in the atheist movement, perceptions of sexism are not based on absolute principle, but on relative emotion.
Watson speaks out against the sexual objectification of women, but she apparently sees nothing wrong with the pinup calendars that she and her female atheist friends publish. Myers defended her views on his blog, but only last year he linked to an interesting interview with Nina Hartley, a feminist atheist who sees nothing wrong with women performing as sex workers. You see, sexism and the exploitation of women are not immoral to godless women as long as such things are on their terms.[1] |
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See also: Internet atheism
See also: Internet atheism
On August 8, 2019, Skepchick was ranked the 376,336th most popular website in the world according to Alexa.
Loss of Google referral traffic to the Skepchick.org website
Skepchick writers who have excess weight challenges
See also: Atheism and obesity and Skepchick writers who have had excess weight challenges
According to Skepchick, "Skepchick is a group of women (and one deserving guy) who write about science, skepticism, feminism, atheism, secularism, and pseudoscience".[3] Yet despite medical science having an vast amount of evidence pointing out the health risks of excess weight and medical science, exercise science, and nutritional science having many effective measures to lose weight, Skepchick has had writers who are overweight - namely Elyse Anders,[4] Amy Davis Roth[5] and Heina Dadabhoy.[6]. See also: Atheism and obesity and Atheism and health
Elyse Anders
Elyse Anders was a writer for Skepchick.[7]
Elyse Anders founded the Women Thinking Free Foundation which has been described as a "science and critical thinking organization focusing on women and women's issues".[8] She also led the Hug Me! I'm Vaccinated campaign which was a vaccine advocacy project. She is a podcaster and is a writer for Shepchick.[9] A 2011 picture of an overweight Elyse Anders can be found HERE. In March 2013, Anders announced that she "lost a bunch of weight".[10]
Amy Davis Roth - writer at Skepchick
Amy Davis Roth is an atheist who writes for Skepchick.[11][12] Pictures of an overweight Amy Davis Roth can be found HERE and HERE.
Heina Dadabhoy - writer at Skepchick
Heina Dadabhoy is an atheist who writes for Skepchick.[13][14] Pictures of an overweight Heina Dadabhoy can be found HERE and HERE
She has written several blog post sympathetic to the ideas of the "fat acceptance" movement.[15] For more information please see: Atheism and the fat acceptance movement
See also
- Atheism and women
- Femen
- Atheist factions
- Internet atheism
- Western atheism and race
- The Orbit
- Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists
- Erica Jong (feminist)
External links
Criticism of Skepchick:
- Of sexism and atheism: Richard Dawkins gets in trouble with feminists - Washington Times, July 16, 2011
- Rebecca Watson: Poster Child of the Anti-Creationists
References
- ↑ Of sexism and atheism: Richard Dawkins gets in trouble with feminists, Washington Times, July 16, 2011
- ↑ Bio of Elyse Anders
- ↑ About Skepchick
- ↑ Elyse Anders
- ↑ Amy Davis Roth articles on Skepchick
- ↑ Heina Dadabhoy articles at Skepchick
- ↑ Elyse Anders
- ↑ Bio of Elyse Anders
- ↑ Bio of Elyse Anders
- ↑ Don’t tell me to love my body by Elyse Anders
- ↑ Amy Davis Roth articles on Skepchick
- ↑ Amy Davis Roth
- ↑ Heina Dadabhoy articles at Skepchick
- ↑ Heina Dadabhoy
- ↑ Heina Dadabhoy - fat acceptance blog post
