Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Re: Minorities in atheism/skepticism/reply

Very much indeed. Though I think the "skepticism movement", if you want to call it that, does do a lot on gay rights and abortion - if anything precisely because they're rich mines for pseudoscience. And RW has possibly the most ridiculously extensive human sexuality section for a website supposedly just devoted to "rational" matters! And lo, we've attracted a reasonable, thought not incredibly exceptional, proportion of women compared to many other groups (without specifically saying "hey girls, come here, we have a quota to fill!!") and certainly above our fair share of sexual deviance too. And it's good that we have a very open policy on what people can bring to the site, and very few, if any, bars on what we discuss. I don't recall anything ever being dismissed as a "minority issue" here. We're not perfect, but I think we as a group do what you're talking about pretty well. Can that alone continue to improve things?

Though perhaps it'll take a lot more than that to shake the angry-white-boy image. That's something that no amount of being open about what psuedoscience you accept as fair game will solve.