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In reply to the discussion: It is not about the swimsuit issue it is about basic respect for women [View all]BainsBane
(53,142 posts)Worse than ridiculing and insulting as a liar someone who recounted her story of being raped as a child? Worse than calling women b...s and c...ts? A b....h is a female dog, after all. It's worse that condemning a victim of child abuse who denounced her rapists as herself being the abuser? Worse than telling women they aren't really women? Worse than referring to black people as N....s? Worse than calling posters mentally ill? Worse than saying women who object to misogyny need therapy? Worse than a man's telling a woman he wants to rape her? Worse than wishing people dead? Worse than calling rape victims liars and defending rapists and pedophiles? Worse than trying to normalize pedophilia? Really? Why is that? Clearly we have very different senses of morality. You see, I don't think one member being called a dog (though I am told that is not what the comment actually did, but say it did for argument's sake) is no worse than calling another a dog, and I certainly don't think it worse than many of the other attacks I listed above.
From what I saw in that post, I did see a number of people denounce the comment. The fact a witch hunt thread was erected for that purpose shows far more concern about that insult than the many others those same members regularly deliver themselves. You do enjoy deflecting. Apparently that comment from months ago is more important than the subject of misogyny and mistreatment of all women. In fact, it would appear some think it justifies misogyny. It justifies treating women as objects and making clear that the views of the majority of women and the majority of the members on this site are entirely inconsequential in comparison to a few members intent to mark GD as male territory. Really what it does is provide an excuse for a rather clumsy and transparent deflection.