When I said he was an embaressment to atheists I meant contemporary professionals who discuss their atheists beliefs and criticise religion. Dawkins is much different and it has nothing to do with appearances, it's his clearly extremist attitude.
go feed on more religious propaganda, wishy washy accusations of "intolerance" and "bigotry" are their hobbyhorses now, even though dawkins' dialectics are ALWAYS based on iron hard logic. instead, they don't like him for being so blunt about something that so many people have invested so much EMOTIONS in, but they lack the mental faculties to say that clearly, so they go about trying to make something that resembles a logical argument, but usually is just plain stupid RETHORICS.