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In reply to the discussion: Misogyny should not be tolerated on DU [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)How does that work? Women aren't a single minded monolithic group anymore than men are. Many have their own ideas about what defense of all women looks like which are often exactly contradictory. Even within the feminist community this is true. As far as where I'm getting this, how often have to seen a person treat a simple disagreement as an attack against "feminists" which one can only believe implies all feminists. Meanwhile other feminists which have conflicting ideas are derided as "fun fems", as if they aren't real feminists.
Your point about race seems a bit more clear now, and I agree with it completely. But if we are to believe every shred of dissent becomes "MRA" or whatever other pigeonhole someone wants to put you in out of some kind of warped purity test, at some point we become an echo chamber where ideas may never be challenged. For whatever reason some people can deal with their ideas being challenged and they want to make things personal. One has to wonder how really secure they are with their ideology if they only want to be surrounded by people who nod their heads. I like to think of the political left as the side that values science, reason, and facts over rhetoric, ignorance, and prejudice. Progressive ideology requires open minds, not closed ones.