Join Becky, Eileen, and Sam discuss the firestorm of discussion surrounding sexism, harassment, and safety in the freethought community.
There are show notes, and there will be more show notes as this goes on, please check back in for updates.
The blog posts Stephanie Zvan points out as educational, on her blog:
UPDATE 6/128:25 PDT:
As you might imagine, there’s been a lot of discussion, and perhaps even controversy over our take on this subject. Since we jettisoned a lot of our actual content in favor of a discussion with Stephanie Zvan and our lack of discussion on those points has been mentioned, we’ve taken the time to produce another podcast to explain more of our position and respond to some of the criticism. It was recorded early this morning and will be released in at least two parts:
Further updates will include links to the other parts, and these sessions will be in the podcast feed.
Also, discussion:
Unsurprisingly, the FreeThoughtBlog community is less than happy with our commentary, and has some criticism. We discuss it in the podcast feed, but here are the direct links to that criticism:
- Stephanie Zvan’s breakdown of the call from her perspective
- Ophelia Benson’s take
- Greg Laden’s agreement in the main, with some critique
Update 06/14:
There’s some more discussion on this episode and the first part of our extended coverage, but it appears as trackbacks now, so feel free to check them out. The final part of our Tuesday morning discussion is now also available:
