Sam Harris Isn't a Sexist Pig, but...

First he said this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2014/09/12/can-atheist-sam-harris-become-a-spiritual-figure/ (comments on women in atheism near the end of the article)

Then he said this:
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/im-not-the-sexist-pig-youre-looking-for

he put the response out because a bunch of atheist women "thanked" him for wishing us into the cornfield instead of calling us out.  it was a mobilizing opportunity for him and he missed it by assuming his preconceptions matched reality.

what might we be doing right now if instead of "i guess women don't think as hard about these things as men do", he'd said, "no, that's *not* true.  i see women at atheist events all the time.  in fact, this is a myth that there are no women in atheism.  let's debunk it, because that's what we do.  everybody tweet #atheistwomenexist."?

even if it accomplished nothing, i think it would have been a much better message than the mouthful of mush he blerfed out.