http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2014/09/12/timeline-of-harassment-and-sexual-assault-allegations-against-michael-shermer/

Even if Dawkins wants to discount the anonymous allegations — and apparently there are a *minimum of five*, probably more — Dallas Haugh was perfectly willing to give *his* name when accusing Shermer of rape.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/13/do-you-know-the-person-behind-the-tumblr-creative-pooping-who-goes-by-the-name-dallas-haugh/comment-page-1/#comment-671302

Seriously, does Dawkins not realize that this is overwhelming evidence? AFAIK, nobody’s reported Dawkins actually harassing or assaulting women himself — why is he defending Schemer?

Maybe the evidence that Shermer rapes men as well as women might wake Dawkins up to reality. :sigh:

It’s strange (only not at all, of course) that noöne has yet attacked James Randi for spreading malicious rumours and gossip. Or being old and senile.

Dana also has slayed that beast since your comment.

It’s strange (only not at all, of course) that noöne has yet attacked James Randi for spreading malicious rumours and gossip. Or being old and senile.

Shermer thread, pharyngula.

“boys will be boys”

no, he did not go unnoticed.

don’t accuse anyone of a crime if you can’t remember what happened

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giggity giggity goo.

I tend to think our biggest obstacle is the proportion of people that think buying a woman five drinks (or four) and then “seizing the opportunity” is normal. Anyone who has ever done this, even decades ago, is going to fight like hell against the idea that this is terrible criminal behavior.

I don’t usually think of myself as being naive, but I am surprised by how firmly so many people want to defend Shermer against the suggestion that he did anything remotely wrong in a moral sense, let alone a legal one. I had assumed that a lot of people were resisting the use of the term rape, and were uncomfortable with the idea of criminal prosecutions in such situations, but that there was at least a baseline agreement that such behavior is shitty.

I mean, even in the “old days” before people talked about date rape or acquaintance rape, wasn’t there still the notion that “taking advantage” was wrong and something only sleazy guys did?