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. In 2009, it was reported that the website consists of 16 female writers and one male writer.[1]
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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.[2] |
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Skepchick and writers who have 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". Yet despite medical science having an vast amount of evidence pointing out the health risks of obesity and excess weight and medical science, exercise science, and nutritional science having many effective measures to lose weight, Skeptchick has writers who are overweight.
Amy Davis Roth
Amy Davis Roth is an atheist who writes for Skepchick.[3][4] 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.[5][6] Pictures of an overweight Heina Dadabhoy can be found HERE and HERE
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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
- There’s nothing skeptical about the Skepchicks’ vicious “campaign”
