Hello dear reader and welcome. I'll come right to the point. I want to suss out if it's actually true that there are less female atheists than male ones in the US and more importantly if so, why is that so.
A few years ago at a Atheist dinner I went to through meetup.com (no, they are not sponsoring this post), a group of us diners, about 70% male got on the topic of dating. One guy in particular had found that, much to his disappointment, a exceptionally small amount of women label themselves atheist, that many more prefer to call themselves spiritual. Since I fully call myself an atheist and I'm single, for that evening, the men were VERY curious about me. Perhaps my hair was awesome, too.
Now bear with me readers, I'm going to offer you my cavewoman, gut response, devoid of any mathematical analysis as to why there might possibly be less female atheists than male atheists: for better or worse, I feel in my bones that being atheist is somehow not feminine and not being feminine is to be hated by society. Scream, yell, tell me to fuck off, but in this particular post I am concerned with emotional truth and it's my deep belief that unless all of us have the space to include subjective reality into the conversation then we won't understand what's going on here.
So there it is.
I welcome responses.
