Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson at the Women in Secularism conference.

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Ophelia Benson is a transgender-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF), a self-proclaimed "skeptic" (but she probably isn't), and the editor of Butterflies and Wheels, a blog about pseudoscience.

The good

Ms. Benson was a self-professed "skeptic" despite denying important feminist principles. She coauthored several books criticizing and satirizing anti-rationalism, misogyny, and pseudoscience.^{[better source needed]} All of these are in partnership with Jeremy Stangroom, a British sociologist and the cofounder of Butterflies and Wheels. She's also a notable female atheist, which is nice, given the inequality in the atheist community.^{[citation needed]}

The bad

She left Freethought Blogs because she was rightfully called a transphobe for "having her own ideas about gender". These ideas put her at odds with many other Freethought Blogs writers, since it's mostly populated with people who support social justice. Which she actually dislikes, given the fact that she thanked Cathy Brennan for her Twitter post defending Benson and denouncing so-called "SJWs."

The ugly

Ms. Benson wrote:

Trans women are the women who really matter. Cis women are too privileged to matter, plus frankly they’re kind of bitches, don’t you think?

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