Reply #256: "Well maybe you should read the rest of her posts."

[urgk]

Maybe you should post comments relevant to the thread or quote side threads if you're going to refer to them. As it is, I've read her posts on this thread and my last comment stands. She, and the other women posting here are angry about being treated as less than men in debates. And they're tired of threats and implications of sexual violence entering into it. Meanwhile, you take a somewhat pedantic tack of trying to get her to admit that some nitpicked point (that you've either paraphrased or made up entirely) is wrong in a purely semantic sense. What you're doing doesn't add anything to the discussion, it only lets you belly up to the keyboard, crack your knuckles and engage in some sort of debate-related wordsports.

And as far as your offer to "mix it up," I think I've made my point. If I feel the need, I may answer back, but as far as I'm concerned, this more than answer your weak jab about men giving up their seats in the lifeboat.

1. 73 percent of family violence victims are female. (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fvs.pdf)
2. Homicide is second leading cause of death among pregnant women. (Source: “Homicide: A Leading Cause of Injury Deaths Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in the United States, 1991-1999.” American Journal of Public Health. March 2005, Vol 95, No.3.)
3. 83 percent of spouse murderers are male. (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fvs.pdf)