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== Atheism, feminism and unattractive women ==

''See also:'' [[Lesbianism and obesity]] and [[Atheism and obesity]] and [[Atheism and the fat acceptance movement]]
[[File:Greta Christina at Skepticon.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|[[Greta Christina]] is an [[atheist activist]], [[feminism|feminist]] blogger.  In addition, she is an [[Atheism|atheist]] speaker and author.  She is in a [[same-sex marriage]] with a woman named Ingrid.<ref>http://gretachristina.com/personal.html</ref>]]
Politically atheists tend to skew to the left and [[feminism]] is part of leftist ideology (see: [[Atheism and politics]]).

A majority of world's atheists are men (see: [[Atheism and women]]). 

Starting with the [[Atheism plus]] movement and becoming more pronounced post the [[Elevatorgate]] controversy, [[atheist feminism]] has become more influential within the [[atheist movement]]. At the same time, [[atheist factions|increased divisions]] within the atheist movement caused a [[decline of the atheist movement]].

[[Milo Yiannopoulos]] wrote in his article ''Does Feminism Make Women Ugly?'':
{{Cquote|Everyone knows that becoming a feminist makes a woman less marriageable, more crass and generally just unpleasant to be around. But does it also make them uglier? Readers have been asking, so I delved into the science to find out.
Certainly, feminists in the public sphere have acquired a reputation for being brazen about their unconventional looks. The cult of “body positivity” has encouraged many young women to [http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/21/my-wedding-perfect-fat-woman embrace excess weight]. Feminist writers like Lindy West celebrate their fatness, while Lena Dunham has made a career out of looking wobbly and horrible.

While the sisterhood might not condemn women for piling on the pounds, men definitely do. But the weight gain, bizarre hair colour, piercings and “genderqueer” fashion trends in feminism aren’t, it seems to me, enough on their own to explain why women who strongly identify as feminists are so often either physically unappealing or mistaken for men.

There’s a persuasive line of reasoning that [http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/the-gop-has-a-feminine-face-finds-238867 suggests women who are physically unattractive are more likely to have progressive politics, give up on blokes and retreat into feminism in the first place]. (The rule [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/06/survey-says-gop-women-are-prettier.html doesn’t hold for men].) [http://jezebel.com/5950013/hot-or-not-why-conservative-women-are-prettier-than-liberal-ladies Even liberal bloggers like West admit that conservative girls are hotter], and, crucially, that liberal women tend to have more masculine features...

This may explain why so many angry, lesbianic placard-wavers look like they’ve been hit by a bus. [http://jezebel.com/5950013/hot-or-not-why-conservative-women-are-prettier-than-liberal-ladies As West puts it]: “I can imagine that liberalism actively attracts people who are shut out of that old-timey paradigm… The women who can’t ‘pass’ for hot are forced to consider why.”

We still haven’t answered the question, though, as to whether a particular philosophical or political position can change how sexually attractive you are, if, say, you come to it later in life. So here goes.

What you probably don’t know is that under certain circumstances behaviour [http://nobaproject.com/modules/hormones-behavior can affect your hormonal levels]. Hormones are powerful substances: they are the chemicals which tell our bodies how to express gender, and which gender to express.

It turns out that adopting aggressive, masculine postures and developing combative psychological reflexes [http://blog.ted.com/10-examples-of-how-power-posing-can-work-to-boost-your-confidence/ can boost testosterone levels] by significant percentages. In many cases, women with a predilection for activism have high testosterone levels in the first place: consider the “high-T jawline” so many feminist journalists, newsreaders and actresses share. Radical feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte has a classic example of this.

Increased testosterone also makes you leaner, so jaws can appear more defined. And of course the male hormone increases acne and promotes baldness, [http://www.dermalinstitute.com/us/library/76_article_Hormones_and_Your_Skin.htm while estrogen clears the skin, adds collagen and generally makes a person look fresher and more youthful].<ref>[http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/26/does-feminism-make-women-ugly/ ''Does Feminism Make Women Ugly?''] by Milo Yiannopoulos</ref>}}