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I Am Not Your Enemy: An Open Letter to My Feminist Critics

Note: The previous post is my usual weekly contribution to SBM. I am taking the liberty of posting this additional entry today on an issue that is peripheral to Science Based Medicine. If you are not interested in the recent squabbles within the skeptical movement, you will probably want to skip it. But it does respond to

Gender Differences and Why They Don’t Matter So Much

Feb 5, 2013Harriet A. Hall, MDEvolution, History, Science-based Medicine Blogfeminism, gender, history of women in medicine, jobs for women, Michael Shermer, Ophelia Benson, PZ Myers, sexism, Steven Novella, the skeptical movement

Several incidents have recently created divisions within the skeptical community. The latest one was over a casual comment Michael Shermer made in an online talk show. He was asked why the gender split in atheism was not 50/50, “as it should be.” He said he thought it probably was 50/50, and suggested that the perception of unequal