Irony, thy name is Darwin, or, Become an Atheist, and ruin your chances of getting a date.

P.Z. Myers reflects on "the women problem," i.e., why women don't like the new atheists:

It's an odd way to put it, I know, but it gets your attention. I could have called this the Atheist and Skeptic Problem, which is more accurate, but leads people to start listing all of our problems, starting with how annoying we are, and just for once I'd rather not go down that road. So here's the Woman Problem, and it's not a problem with women: it's a problem with atheist and skeptic groups looking awfully testosteroney. And you all know it's true, every time I post a photo of some sampling of the audience at an atheist meeting, it is guaranteed that someone will count the contribution of each sex and it will be consistently skewed Y-ward.

Vox Day holds up the mirror:

Let's me get this straight. Women don't like a group of men who are known for being socially difficult, taking every excuse to pick arguments, launching unprovoked attacks on other's beliefs, throwing hissy fits at the drop of a hat, and basically behaving like drama queens on all occasions. And on top of this, they tend to be inordinately interested in science.


This is a mystery? Seriously? All that's without even taking the high Creepy Guy factor which some of the atheist women report of the skeptic conference attendees and even atheist leaders into account.

Maybe the lesser "reproductive fitness" associated with atheism accounts for their small numbers.