PZ Myers-owned copy of Skepchick nude calendar now on eBay!

Copies of the now-infamous Skepchick nude calendar are hard to come by these days, but Skepchick fans can now get their hands on a copy previously owned by PZ Myers himself.

Myers, the celebrated evo-devo biologist and popular feminist blogger, is auctioning off his personal copy of the racy calendar as part of the The Pamper Initiative, a fundraiser created to send a dozen people to this year’s Free Thought Convention. The fundraiser aims to cover airfare, hotel and convention fees to the members-only event hosted by popular skeptic and atheist bloggers.

“It’s an item that has enormous sentimental value, obviously,” Myers told reporters. “I’ve always kept it as a reminder that women aren’t objects, and that the female form can be empowering, in this case as a way to raise money for a good cause.”

The original image of Rebecca Watson from the Skepchick nude calendar (left) and the PZ Myers-owned copy up for bid (right).

Bidding started at a modest $150, but by Tuesday — just a day after the auction went live — the highest bid had topped out at $3,216.43.

“Item is classified as fair to worn condition,” the auction description reads. “Cover is faded and scuffed from storage under mattress. The following months on the calendar are either worn, bent or stained: April (Rebecca Watson), June (Greta Christina), September (Amy Roth), and October (Melody Hensley). Pages for June (Greta Christina) and July (Jen McCreight) are joined in some places by organic adhesive. Buyers must agree to purchase calendar as-is, with the understanding that this is a used item. Refunds will not be granted based on item condition.”

More than 300 users posted bids to own PZ Myers’ personal copy of the infamous Skepchick nude calendar.

Michio Kaku Blackballs Rebecca Watson from Speaking at Skeptifest VII

This pervert purchased 11 copies of Skepchick’s nude calendar.

This latest bit of news comes by way of Greta Christina, who writes that she’s “been hearing these stories behind the scenes for a while now, but it was always told to me super secret off-the-record, so I couldn’t go public with this bombshell.” Now, citing an ironclad source who once served coffee to the secretary of an organizer who worked with Michio Kaku during prep for his Skeptifest talks, Christina confirms that the celebrated physicist did indeed blacklist Watson from sharing the stage with him:

“As I walked 10 paces back, I couldn’t hear everything they were saying, but I heard the name ‘Rebecca Watson.’

Kaku suddenly exploded with anger, startling organizers and members of his entourage who were testing the sound system ahead of his speech. “NO! Abso-fucking-lutely not!” the physicist raged. “God help me, if she’s going to be there, I won’t be there. I don’t want that stupid cunt anywhere near me!”

I couldn’t make out everything that was said, but as the organizers tried to placate him, Kaku was saying something about Watson being ‘like a human Dyson sphere, blotting out my star and siphoning its energy for her own gain,” and complaining that if he shared the stage with Watson, “I’d be like a Type I civilization, and she’d be a Type IV.”

When the organizers asked Kaku what they should tell Watson, Kaku waved dismissively. “Tell that bitch we left her hanging like space junk in a LaGrange point.”

So there you have it, folks. Patriarchy apologists and supporters of the Dawkins/Grothe/Tyson/Kaku tyranny have long laughed at any suggestion that there is an active campaign to silence Watson and deny women their rightful place in the pantheon of science and skepticism. But with the testimony of neutral observers like Christina and a cadre of 11th-rate bloggers confirming the stories, it’s become increasingly obvious that the men who occupy the highest spheres of atheism, science and skepticism not only loathe Rebecca Watson, they fear her. Doubtless Kaku imagined all the lucrative television specials and Coast to Coast AM appearances drying up in proportion to Watson’s rising prominence, for who wants to hear from the co-founder of string field theory when they could be hearing from the world’s preeminent feminist-skeptic?