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In reply to the discussion: Posting T&A threads helps to create a hostile environment for women here. [View all]Firstly, I stayed out of those flamebait threads. My post you have the screenshot of was about Quinnox's thread that itself made a series of sexist and stereotypical generalizations about men. It seems you're pissed of I found his thread amusing rather than complaining about it or alerting on it. That is the lamest evidence possible. Your fantasy of a vast misandrist conspiracy is just plain bullshit.
You are in a thread with 167 people recommending the point that T and A pics create a hostile environment, yet you claim all the horrible efforts to force you to treat women like human beings are the result of a small clique. Clearly no one in HOF started either of those threads. They were begun with the deliberate intent to provoke, as the host of one small group admitted. To blame the controversy on feminsits is a willfull and deliberate distortion.
I could disappear tomorrow and nothing would change for you. You'd still be seeing evil misandrists under every rock, horrible women suggesting liberals should respect the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that forms the legal basis for prohibitions of a hostile environment. That is the law of the US and has been for decades. I don't know where you've been for the past few decades that this somehow comes as news to you. DU is public space, not your bedroom.
Your thread is a dishonest and mean-spirited callout. That you think that poll is proof of anything is absurd. It's obviously phrased in the most skewed manner possible, which is why a lot of people didn't participate. 167 recs here compared to 22 on the SI thread and about 5 on the Upton thread. YOU are on the minority side of this issue.
I am not stalking you. I rarely even talk to you. You don't like the fact I argue for equal rights. Too bad. Deal with it. You want to make what is fundamentally a dispute about values and ideas about human equality into a petty personal fight. I have zero interest in that. I care not one teensy weensy bit about you personally or any of your like-minded friends. I haven't given enough thought to any of you to lead some sort of personal vendetta, misandrist jihad, or whatever scenario you've concocted in your head. I want nothing to do with you, so leave me out of your shit storm.