No, it happens on this board, too, and with that “poster” (I have to refer to him as a poster and not a moderator because complaints about moderators HAVE to go in ATMB.) I have asked him repeatedly NOT to engage me and I never engage him. You can see from this thread how much self-control he has. He quotes me and tries to get responses from me all the time. Whatever, I guess he’s just so enamored with my posts he can’t help himself. A form of flattery, I suppose.
And I’m sure you noticed how he ignores the rules. No insults are allowed, but he compares the “post” to an insulting subject. He did it up thread. It allows a “poster” to claim he was only referring to the post. It’s a horseshit trick, but as you saw up thread, some “posters” do it in the knowledge they’ll get away with it. And he did.
Not sure what point you are ultimately making here. If it seems proper to you, I’ll go ahead and amend what I said–replace my “posting as a moderator” with “moderating.” In the one you’re talking about, you might say he was “posting as a moderator” if you like, but the more relevant point is that he wasn’t moderating.
I can’t figure out why I am supposed to care about this.
This is silly. No one has ever been silenced or Modded for disagreeing with me.
Tone? My tone has not included your shrill cries of unfairness, (as you unfairly lump together many disparate views expressed by different feminists as if they were a single opinion so that you can set up a straw man attack on some “feminism” that exists only in your mind.)
That said, if you choose to fail to respond to my posts, I am under no such compulsion to fail to point out your errors. That you resort to these sort of silly complaints in order to duck away from the legitimate criticisms I have posted simply indicates the acuracy of my observations.
I did not modify the post.
Another Mod broke the URL, but the coding resulted in an apparent link that was totally broken. After the broken link was reported, I simply re-established the URL, but disengaged the automatic link so that anyone who wished to view it could copy the actual URL into an address field and visit the site.
Sorry. No poster has the right to demand another poster not post. If you insist on posting errors, you are going to be corrected. When you demand that another poster not correct your errors, you are simply trying to demand that only you may post on a topic without contradiction or correction. This is the debate forum; no one is going to allow you free rein to post without challenge.
When a poster submits nonsense, their posts , (but not their persons), are open targets for ridicule. If you find that uncomfortable, you are free to refrain from posting.
No duh. Which is why it’s ok to say, “Your posts are beginning to look like a bad ripoff of…(insert horseshit insult here).” Which we already saw up thread.
And one may equally make the observation that if women all disappeared, men would be left with very little medical care as women compose 74.2% of the health industry. And while “only” 36.7% of physicians are women and 25% of EMT techs are women, women make up the overwhelming majority of every other health related field.
Your claim was just meaningless. If any large group of people disappeared from society, the remaining society would suffer for some period. When you then went on to imply that women would be unable to pick up many of those jobs because they did not like cockroaches, (while ignoring the inability of men to change diapers), you took you meaningless claim into the realm of just dumb.
Yeah – that’s plenty of women. 13% of all the engineers in the US adds up to at least 200,000 engineers.
Add in all the other intelligent and resourceful women in the US, and they’d be more than capable of keeping the lights on and the toilets running in the absence of men.
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[li]I’m curious why you think I don’t understand how mass movements and activism works.[/li][li]I’ve never heard of “The Manipulated Man”.[/li][li]If you think that Karen Straughan’s point is that: “women are stupid, but they manipulate men into being their slaves,” then you’re either willfully misrepresenting her, or you haven’t actually listened to what she’s said.[/li][/ul]
Yes. It is OK, when a poster has not been subject to any Moderator action complains that he is being unfairly abused by an authority figure, to point out that his posts resemble the complaints of a fictional character similarly complaining of abuse that has not occurred. I made no statements regarding the poster’s intelligence, mental health, honesty, parentage, or personal hygiene. I noted a similarity between his statements and those of another. The distinction is obvious to the vast majority of posters and follows the rules in place on this board for the past 16 years.
Because if all the women disappeared, hospitals and elementary schools (except in tomndebb’s town) would be an absolute mess, and there would be significant wait times at restaurants and on the phone.
But if all the men disappeared, most of our most necessary infrastructure maintenance would come screeching to a halt.
And it’s apparently horrifyingly sexist to admit this. Which is why the feminists are denying it. Those plucky gals could do everything the men do, and learn it overnight! There would be no interruption to electricity or sewerage because women can learn everything they’d need to know before the electricity shut off or water stopped. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply ludicrous!
The reason this particular discussion has gone on so long is because it’s so awesome to read the arguments from people who care more about spouting their ideological orthodoxy than they do about conceding things we all know are true. It’s fucking hilarious. One town has two male kindergarten teachers, therefore women do not predominate kindergarten teaching. Um, okay dude, gotcha.
It’s ludicrous to suggest that there aren’t enough women with those skills, and enough other resourceful and intelligent women, to keep things going until full-staffing levels could be trained.
It’s the same for hospitals and schools – enough male nurses (and doctors, obviously) would exist to train others to take those roles, and enough male teachers and professors and the like (and regular educated people) to keep schools running.
100 years ago the number of female engineers were a lot closer to zero than to 6 digit numbers, and most of the old coal burning plants and factories (which also required a lot more maintenance and hands-on workers) would probably have shut down pretty quickly. But thanks to feminism, there are now women in every field, and literally hundreds of thousands of engineers, in addition to the millions of other intelligent and resourceful women. It’s just ludicrous to claim that these hundreds of thousands of engineers + millions of intelligent and resourceful people would be unable to keep modern technology going.
And now you are attacking LinusK and his OP. Interesting.
The dumb comment had no real relevance to the actual topic of the thread and was presented poorly. The fascination with that post has more to with LinusK and his partisans refusing to admit it’s exaggeration and it’s irrelevance to the topic, along with the normal combative nature of the forum, than it does to ideology.