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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)101. It's not a feeling...its knowing I don't...
I will NEVER understand what it is like for them....so I don't presume to tell they "how they should feel". I don't expect them to accept my opinions about them....to let them stand no matter how wrong.
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Unlike NSA spying or ACA, the gender issue is very personal and sometimes painful, and....
NYC_SKP
Jan 2014
#2
If it weren't for that particular poster's history of tasteless, offensive "jokes"
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#13
No one is bashing DUers. It's an honest discussion of the possibility of alert trolls.
Cleita
Jan 2014
#34
Doesn't matter. DU is so overrun by imbedded trolls, statistics would be meaningless.
onehandle
Jan 2014
#11
The admins know, so those who are playing games with the alerting can be found out
quinnox
Jan 2014
#19
I'm not sure. All I know is you are going to see a DU bloodbath with lots of duers frozen out
quinnox
Jan 2014
#47
That is fine, I respect his opinion. I think it will be interesting to watch and see what happens
quinnox
Jan 2014
#454
I think if a member constantly responds to your posts by attacking you and not or barely
seaglass
Jan 2014
#65
"Some"? Really? Stay on topic. That post I was referring to was textbook disruption.
PeaceNikki
Jan 2014
#234
More than that, there should be consequences for frivolous alerting. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#20
Same here, it has to be completely obvious for me to bother. OTOH, I've been on dozens of juries
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#31
Developing a system to find and track this behavior would be very simple. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#69
The admins can track alert stats. They've said multiple times there's no serial alerters. n/t
tammywammy
Jan 2014
#137
Yes because some men presume to tell women how to feel about these issues...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#30
they ARE telling them how to feel...do not fool yourself into thinking otherwise...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#37
Don't talk to me like I'm some kind of naive, innocent little child you're trying to
polly7
Jan 2014
#231
No I have no intention of listening to men tell me what it is like to be a woman..
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#252
Both men and women can overreact, it is a human quality not just female.
Waiting For Everyman
Jan 2014
#369
But YOU as a White male do not get to decide for a Black person what is or isn't an
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#373
Yeah....that's what they always say.... when they are proven wrong....
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#335
No, it's what 'I' say when I'm beyond bored. I don't see a reason to lie about being bored.
polly7
Jan 2014
#340
apparently so...you proclaimed it yourself. I didn't deem it appropriate
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#352
Again, I haven't seen polly tell you what you feel as an American woman n/t
Violet_Crumble
Jan 2014
#362
You said 'I' told you men should be allowed to tell you what to think and feel as a woman.
polly7
Jan 2014
#378
but how does that have anything to do with the issue we are discussing
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#375
I don't bring it up to give myself props either ....... what a fucking piece of work you are.
polly7
Jan 2014
#393
Answered. Bored. Hungry. Not impressed by your fear of questions you find uncomfortable.
polly7
Jan 2014
#408
I have no fear...where on earth do you get the impression that I would
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#433
why don't you do the same...you keep finding other things to reply too...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#453
Just on principle, after seeing how you lie and twist things, I probably shouldn't agree with
polly7
Jan 2014
#426
You are right Sheldon....they just REFUSE to see the forest for the trees...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#303
And alerts and hides are down on DU because everyone's behavior has gotten so positive!
seaglass
Jan 2014
#392
Well multiple juries have told me that calling someone toxic is not rude. So clearly you and I
seaglass
Jan 2014
#432
Beaten at what, responding to your spin, twisting, deliberately lying about what I and others wrote,
polly7
Jan 2014
#444
What a horrible way to categorize progressives who choose to discuss something and may
polly7
Jan 2014
#53
should African Americans allow some "difference of opinion" about their rights and
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#66
I don't presume to tell African Americans what is or isn't outrageous to them...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#90
What makes YOU think I don't? Are you saying I am supposed to bow to you AUTHORITAY?
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#105
why do you suggest because I have an opinion on this matter...that somehow I don't
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#123
No...I don't NEED your opinions about what it is like to be a woman..do African Americans
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#259
Being supportive doesn't mean you get to have opinions about what it is like..
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#296
"jake" doesn't get to have an opinion about what it is like to be a woman in America
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#113
You have no right to tell me what I should or shouldn't feel as a woman
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#126
Some of these folks remind me ultraradical campus Maoists. It's like a bad parody of feminism.
Comrade Grumpy
Jan 2014
#131
No did you or did you not applaud my being called an "internet dictator"?
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#177
All I have said is that Men don't get a pass when it comes to women's issues...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#202
If you allow 2 women to say that...then those women SHOULD be dealt with accordingly.
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#42
I dealt with it in the only way I know how to on this Site. I do not participate or engage either
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2014
#45
I am a female...that gives me an inside track...on what I should or shouldn't be outraged about.
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#87
do white people have a right to tell black people how they should feel?
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#127
this happened in The Lounge ... not that it excuses the behavior. Happened on or about June 2013.
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2014
#58
meh, I just considered the source and moved on but, sometimes it still rankles when discussions
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2014
#63
What I have seen in the situation you describe, is someone posting an opinion a little different
RC
Jan 2014
#117
If men can't have an opinion on those issues, then why even post them in GD?
Vashta Nerada
Jan 2014
#70
they should listen and learn not presume to say they "know what its like"
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#84
When people whose race you don't share talk about their racial experiences, do
Squinch
Jan 2014
#180
when it comes to Women's rights issues....that they seem to think they
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#182
Life is too rich to insist that you can't learn from what other have to tell you about their
Squinch
Jan 2014
#219
Do you really think you have more expertise in what it is to be a woman than a woman does?
Squinch
Jan 2014
#170
"Why not start a Women's Group where these issues can be discussed without the opinions of men?"
xulamaude
Jan 2014
#88
Because 51% of the population is female. Do you feel that every topic that is posted on GD
Squinch
Jan 2014
#267
And you are allowed to post in anything you want to. But if you hate these threads so much,
Squinch
Jan 2014
#332
Don't know, don't care. If you want to know, why not go a little ways back in the GD archives
winter is coming
Jan 2014
#155
Of course. For any other group, I think all here would agree that to do anything
Squinch
Jan 2014
#175
Well, I've been hitting HIDE THREAD a lot lately, but I'm guessing that isn't what you mean.
MADem
Jan 2014
#265
There was at least one (ridiculous) alert on a post in this thread. One of mine, in fact.
PeaceNikki
Jan 2014
#341
And Dear Juror #6: If you don't like venom, why didn't you vote to stop it?
PeaceNikki
Jan 2014
#413
I alerted on all 3 posts that called the poster toxic - the original, ComradeGrumpy's and Polly7's
seaglass
Jan 2014
#440
it's true. I often want to use that when called to adjudicate on a post in I/P.
PeaceNikki
Jan 2014
#423