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In reply to the discussion: Posting T&A threads helps to create a hostile environment for women here. [View all]AZCat
(8,339 posts)But the world has changed for us since then. I remember how comforting it was in the early days of 2001 to find voices on the internet similar to my own, because there didn't seem to be much evidence elsewhere of people with similar sympathies. I wasn't a member of DU until 2004, but from the beginning I read DU as a way to shield myself from the insanity. We all had such kinship, but I think it was partly dependent on a obvious common threat to our way of life, to our future.
Now we have a Democratic president - black(!) man - and a relevant political party, and all those differences that seemed insignificant in the first years of this century have since grown, and now threaten to split us apart. It seems sad that we can't keep the warm embrace of a decade ago, but societies don't seem to work that way, whether digital or corporeal. I guess that's life?