Reply #146: we need a guardian angels sort of group

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I don't know the history here, but do you approach these incidents alone or are there other people there to back you up? And we should be hitting alert - how else will people learn? Seriously, I said to slinkerwink that while it's probably true that a single woman is easy to ingore or brush aside, a whole bunch of them might eventually get the point across. If I had seen that Rice thread I would've definitely been in there with you. Maybe if some of us got together and acted as a sort of "education team" we could get somewhere with this.

Assuming, of course, that the people who make these comments are interested in understanding sexism at all. If they're not, well, perhaps DU isn't the right community for feminists.