Still at it, are we? And after Gaius tried to bring this amazing thread back on topic
I was content to stop responding with yours as the final word, in particular because much of what I was saying was going over your head, but if you're so deeply concerned about the quality of the posts in the women's issues forum that you want to keep bumping this thread to the top and spend our time lobbing personal attacks back and forth, so be it.
You are the woman who cried patriarchy. Any time a man dares to disagree with you, you immediately start blowing your whistle and waving the male priviledge flag around. You regularly make sexist remarks with respect to men. I don't blow up over them because it's not worth it, but the way you label anything and everything as evidence of patriarchy weakens the whole argument.
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Male privilege is a concept used to describe potential social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are made available to men solely on the basis of their sex."
What social, economic, or political advantages did I take advantage of in calling you out as a hypocrite? Does having a dick give me special reading skills that allowed me to pick up where you were trashing Lee and then in the following reply said that she was the one (as in singular, not you) who was being unconstructive? Do I have some freedom to speak in this forum that you lack? Do I have the weight of financial or political power bolstering my ability to talk to you on a free message board? Does my public school education provide me with an advantage that you were denied in yours?
I never asked you to stop talking. Not that I would mind if you did, but that was never my request. You got bent out of shape over receiving public criticsm, so I was merely pointing out some easily available options that will let you communicate in a criticism-free manner. My point was that *I* am not going to be silenced by baseless accusations of sexism.
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Hypocrisy is the contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretense, sham."
I never made the argument that avoiding trash talk is virtuous. In fact, if you read my very first reply to you, you can quite clearly see "I agree with the view that a lot of posters are more than deserving of the harsh words they receive". I'm fine with trash talking when it's warranted. I do it myself, I hit the like button when others do it, especially when done in an intelligent or amusing fashion.
But I don't start talking shit with people and then turn around and complain that they're talking shit.
That is hypocrisy.
Are there people on the board who feel I'm a loudmouthed asshole? Sure. I could list a lot of very specific names in particular who've said as much to my face, but as someone considers herself a champion of equal rights for women, I'm not sure that listing your name alongside theirs would put you in very good company.
P.S. A shrug is a gesture that has a meaning.
shrug
SHrəɡ/
verb
- 1.
raise (one's shoulders) slightly and momentarily to express doubt, ignorance, or indifference.
It's not a meaningless statement at the end of the thread. It communicates the dictionary definition... that I am indifferent to your complaint that I called you out for being hypocritical.
"Go suck a dick" has meaning as well. You can pretend that it's just a random string of words, but it speaks to your pattern of immediately making sexist remarks yourself when you're pissed off.