how about everyone on the male/female debate grow up?

[The_Commonist]

30. It's really boring.

It's one of the things that makes this place suck sometimes. Attention-seeking button pushers on both sides, nit-pickers looking for offense, the usual cast of characters whining incessantly and not seeming to actually DO anything.

It's really pretty simple - Oppression sucks. Our species has treated women like shit for a long time. Some of us are trying to do our small part to smash the patriarchy, but it will take time. It does no good whatsoever for us to attack each other, but it's convenient to do so. I think pretty much everybody on DU, except for obvious trolls, is more or less on the same side of where we need to go as a species, but not everybody is as "enlightened," or moves at quite the same pace. But, as you point out, if you don't dot your i or cross your t properly, the same half dozen or so people will barrage you with negativity. It's like they think they can get people to change by constantly berating them. Delusional!

I've stayed out of those threads because they suck. And we've got so much other work to do as well, besides smashing the patriarchy. That's simply one of about a hundred major agenda items, it may or may not be at the top of the list, but it's certainly not going to happen by people who generally agree with each other yelling at each other anonymously on internet discussion forums.