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The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) is an annual celebration of science, skepticism and critical thinking. People from all over the world come TAM each year to share learning, laughs and the skeptical perspective with their fellow skeptics and a host of distinguished guest speakers and panelists

Officials for The Amazing Meeting, or TAM, said Wednesday (July 11) that women would make up 31 percent of the 1,200 conference attendees, down from 40 percent the year before. A month before the conference, pre-registration was only 18 percent women, organizers said.

The explanations are many -- the bad economy, that women, as caregivers, are less able to get away, and that more men than women identify as skeptics, whose worldview rejects the supernatural and focuses on science and rationality.

But in the weeks preceding TAM, another possible explanation has roiled the nontheist community. Online forums have crackled with charges of sexism in TAM’s leadership and calls for the ouster of D.J. Grothe, the male president of the James Randi Educational Foundation, TAM’s organizer. In June, Rebecca Watson, a skeptic blogger and speaker, canceled her TAM appearance because, she said on her blog, she does “not feel welcome or safe.”

Other nontheists -- both male and female -- have shared stories of unwanted sexual attention at nontheist gatherings, including propositions for sex and unwelcome touching. Chatter has ranged from calls for more women to attend nontheist events to personal attacks on prominent female skeptics for discussing harassment. Meanwhile, two more skeptic/feminist bloggers announced they will not attend TAM.

The debate has had two major impacts -- a call for cooler tempers and the immediate implementation of sexual harassment policies by all of the major nontheist organizations, both national and regional.

 

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looks just like a professor i had in college!

either that, or all white people look alike.

 

[$tinkle]

and one of my cs professors:

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

I wanna play! Two of my ME professors:

I think it's an unwritten rule that all smart, white professors look like crazy Santa Claus'.

 

[$tinkle]

^^^^^

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

^^^^^

I was thinking more Glamour Shots.

 

[Pesqueeb]

The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) is an annual celebration of science, skepticism and critical thinking. People from all over the world come TAM each year to share learning, laughs and the skeptical perspective with their fellow skeptics and a host of distinguished guest speakers and panelists

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-16/news/sns-rt-us-usa-military-sexbre86g024-20120716_1_drill-sergeant-female-trainees-sexual-assault

http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/reports/violence-against-women-and-role-religion

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-07-14/church-deacon-sex-assault/56223514/1

etc....

 

[$tinkle]

^^^^^^^

"dear penthouse..."

 

[$tinkle]

I was thinking more Glamour Shots.