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In reply to the discussion: So Sick Of This Gender Wars Bullshit [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)First off, I reiterate - this is a liberal messageboard, where liberally-oriented topics are going to be discussed. At least it's supposed to be. Feminism and feminist issues are inevitably going to be among these topics. If you dislike that... tough.
Second, you ar very obviously taking sides in this "gender war" you claim to dislike as a whole. The only "villains" are the feminists, the "Our Sisters of Perpetual Outrage" as a HOF poster mockingly used to include in her sig line. It seems to have slipped past your radar all the taunt threads, all the callouts, the mockery of feminism and a very dedicated trolling effort by worthless trashbags. When a poster starts a thread explaining some of the terminology used by misogynists on a rather shitty chunk of the web, and suddenly there's eight different threads with similar but mocking titles, all started by people who have been working very hard to attack and insult anyone who speaks on a feminist topic?
But all you see are those of us who are bothered by such activity. We're the ones at fault. Because, why, because we come to a liberal messageboard, expecting to discuss such topics without constant reactionary bait and trolling? Becuase we expect standards or - god fucking forbid - for the existing standards to be enforced, if they won't be respected?
It's interesting that you are only complaining about anger and frustration being directed at the people who are very intentionally creating a hostile and toxic environment, and not on the people actually doing that. But then you also seem more bothered by people being called misogynists, than with displays of actual misogyny.
Maybe instead of grabbing at your own face and starting off on a knee-jerk "I'mma make a thread to tell these bitches to stfu and know their place!" direction, maybe try.... listening?