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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
The "skeptic community" is something she defined primarily out of interest in leading it. But she seems not to have a grasp of who's in it. Notice the equivalency between Richard Dawkins and an anti-circumcision activist? I think the definition of her community was primarily to get it past whatever spambot at Slate decides which articles to publish. Otherwise it's just "Internet community is horrible," and that's dog-bites-man.
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I tend to agree with a fair amount of what you've been saying -- the Twitter comment of "totally cop a feel" was an obvious (and awful) joke and not a statement of intent to assault, the attempt to blame or demonize Dawkins over this is ridiculous, and a few other things.
But the last part? No. That a significant number of people, particularly people who are at an intellectual level sufficiently advanced to follow a blog like hers (I doubt she's attracting a lot of junior-high students or high school dropouts, for example), would respond to the original (and also, in my view, silly and seriously overblown) story about the elevator invite with rape threats and so forth is really pretty grisly. That she refers to those people as part of a "community" isn't really relevant.
