Richard Dawkins and male privilege | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
This is a really interesting discussion on the interwebs today, and i'm disappointed we don't really have any ladies to weight on it.
Here is the tl;dr:
A popular female skeptic blogger was at a conference, and at one point at night was in an elevator going up to her floor. There as a man in the elevator, and he told her he found her fascinating and invited her to his room for coffee. She declined politely, and that was the end of it. She made a post on her blog apparently in an awareness fashion to help educate guys on how not to creep women out. Dawkins responded that this is ridiculous being that nothing happened, compared to Muslim women in highly-Islamic societies. Dawkins is catching a lot of heat for it.
I myself am a bit torn in what to think.
Here are a bunch of Reddit comments on the matter:
Is Richard Dawkins in the wrong here? : atheism