Reddit users behave like monstrous assholes and somehow atheists get blamed
So the thing is: A Reddit user who is a 15-year-old girl posted a thing on Reddit. She has Christian parents but is an atheist and posted that her folks gave her Carl Sagan's book "The Demon Haunted World," which is a lovely book by Sagan about scientific thinking and his life and so on. Great, right?
Well, no. Because Reddit users are a bunch of howling asswolves they immediately start lamenting that the girl isn't of legal age to have sex with (because that is how Reddit treats women) which snowballs with great force into a parade of rape "jokes." Which then becomes an attack on women because this girl dared to post a picture of herself holding up the book, instead of just the book itself on an immaculate counter or something, proving that women are desperate for attention or something.
It got bad, guys. Real bad. Reddit is not a nice place. It has its moments, sure, but the general tone tends towards rape, objectification, and a fervent belief that women don't belong on the internet.
But what bothers me is that because this all took place in the sub-forum devoted to atheism, atheists get the blame. Because clearly it's impossible to join the subforum unless you prove that you're an atheist. Right? But also every story on this misses the fundamental point that this shit happens all across Reddit.
It's not an atheist problem; it's a shitty Reddit community problem.
Reddit Makes Me Hate Atheists - Skepchick
