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Boricua Guerrero
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In June of 2011, I was on a panel at an atheist conference in Dublin. I used my time to talk about what its like for me to communicate atheism online, and how being a woman might affect the response I receive, as in rape threats and other sexual comments.
The audience was receptive, and afterward I spent many hours in the hotel bar discussing issues of gender, objectification, and misogyny with other thoughtful atheists. At around 4 a.m., I excused myself, announcing that I was exhausted and heading to bed in preparation for another day of talks.
As I got to the elevator, a man who I had not yet spoken with directly broke away from the group and joined me. As the doors closed, he said to me, Dont take this the wrong way, but I find you very interesting. Would you like to come back to my hotel room for coffee? I politely declined and got off the elevator when it hit my floor.
A few days later, I was making a video about the trip and I decided to use that as an example of how not to behave at conferences if you want to make women feel safe and comfortable. After all, it seemed rather obvious to me that if your goal is to get sex or even just companionship, the very worst way to go about attaining that goal is to attend a conference, listen to a woman speak for 12 hours about how uncomfortable she is being sexualized at conferences, wait for her to express a desire to go to sleep, follow her into an isolated space, and then suggest she go back to your hotel room for coffee, which, by the way, is available at the hotel bar you just left.
What I said in my video, exactly, was, Guys, dont do that, with a bit of a laugh and a shrug. What legions of angry atheists apparently heard was, Guys, I wont stop hating men until I get 2 million YouTube comments calling me a c*nt. The skeptics boldly rose to the imagined challenge.
Sexism in the skeptic community: I spoke out, then came the rape threats. - Slate Magazine
here's her video describing the incident
at 4:30
here's a site with a timeline of events Theism and atheism: Elevatorgate Timeline
In June of 2011, I was on a panel at an atheist conference in Dublin. I used my time to talk about what its like for me to communicate atheism online, and how being a woman might affect the response I receive, as in rape threats and other sexual comments.
The audience was receptive, and afterward I spent many hours in the hotel bar discussing issues of gender, objectification, and misogyny with other thoughtful atheists. At around 4 a.m., I excused myself, announcing that I was exhausted and heading to bed in preparation for another day of talks.
As I got to the elevator, a man who I had not yet spoken with directly broke away from the group and joined me. As the doors closed, he said to me, Dont take this the wrong way, but I find you very interesting. Would you like to come back to my hotel room for coffee? I politely declined and got off the elevator when it hit my floor.
A few days later, I was making a video about the trip and I decided to use that as an example of how not to behave at conferences if you want to make women feel safe and comfortable. After all, it seemed rather obvious to me that if your goal is to get sex or even just companionship, the very worst way to go about attaining that goal is to attend a conference, listen to a woman speak for 12 hours about how uncomfortable she is being sexualized at conferences, wait for her to express a desire to go to sleep, follow her into an isolated space, and then suggest she go back to your hotel room for coffee, which, by the way, is available at the hotel bar you just left.
What I said in my video, exactly, was, Guys, dont do that, with a bit of a laugh and a shrug. What legions of angry atheists apparently heard was, Guys, I wont stop hating men until I get 2 million YouTube comments calling me a c*nt. The skeptics boldly rose to the imagined challenge.
Sexism in the skeptic community: I spoke out, then came the rape threats. - Slate Magazine
here's her video describing the incident
at 4:30
here's a site with a timeline of events Theism and atheism: Elevatorgate Timeline
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I'm so tired of hearing about this. She was overreacting.
