How are you dealing...... [View all]

[boston bean]

Over the weekend, I have made many attempts and pleas to not only admin, but members of this site to try to get them to see what a terrible policy this was...... putting womens rights up for debate. I've been supported, I've been snarled at, I've been personally attacked, I've had my words twisted. I'm sure you can all relate.

This morning, my post in ATA had a response. The response was completely lacking any context to the more important of my two questions. I was hoping for some support, some reconsideration, what I got was nada. It wasn't important enough to even bother writing a response to, I guess. To be clear, I wasn't asking for a banning of a long term poster, I was looking for admin to make it known that anti choice commentary wasn't welcome here (hell maybe put it in the TOS??). I was looking for some top down leadership protecting womens rights in this little corner of the web. I am sorry to report that was too much to ask. Instead in another ATA thread the answer remained the same, as it was in the first response that brought about this issue. You can go out to ATA to read. I'm not linking them here.

The clear message as far as I can tell is that posters can post anti choice opinions on DU. Juries can maybe hide the post, admin might or might not decide to take any action.

Anti choice obviously does not rise to the level of racist comments, or anti gay marriage comments here on DU.... I truly believe admin does not see the similarity. Womens rights are not as important?? I don't know the exact reason for this. Whether it is cluelessness or if it is something more I don't know. After all these years, I want to believe cluelessness. If it is cluelessness, the response/non response to a respectful question in ATA was extremely disappointing. I don't understand the motivation for it. I found it to be rude and responded in kind.

So, how are you dealing with this information? I feel like I've been hit over the head with a bunch of bricks. I'm confused by this, I'm in almost a state of denial that the above is the case..... It feels like I've been shocked and I'm not quite ready to raise the white flag.... is it futile?

I would hope a jury would let me have this say with my sisters here in this group, looking for some support.