What sensitive context is there to my comments? This is a conversation about another conversation - the context of the first conversation isn't the same.
I disagree with the author, so I don't believe there is any truth to it, illustrated or not. But in any case, the reason I describe it as 'emotive', is the name-calling ("asshole") and and things like "you're excluding a voice from your privileged in-group"; why is this an issue if on the basis of merit - Because it's an offended woman, as opposed to an offended man?
the context here is:
> By way of illustration, suppose you are a guy who identifies as a skeptic. And then suppose you encounter a woman who tells you that because of the insults she has received from guys in the skeptic community, she has decided that the skeptic movement is fundamentally sexist
So, talking to a male skeptic that has presumably perpetrated no act of sexism, but is being accused of it in this context, and is as such defending the movement. Is this interpretation wrong?
Let me alter the proposition a little:
> suppose you are a Muslim. And then suppose you encounter someone who tells you that because of the sexism they have encountered from other Muslims, they have decided that Islam is fundamentally sexist.
Would it still be as offensive to say:
"These people are not assholes because they are skeptics, they're assholes who happen to be skeptics"
And in the case, it's more likely that religious beliefs could lead to sexist ones, compared to skepticism.