# Can we finally get some clarification on what's "misogynistic" and off-limits now?

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-finally-get-some-clarification-on-whats-misogynistic-and-off-limits-now/657244/153 "2013-05-02T17:44:24Z")

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I realize there are a lot of people with questions about this, but none of them are going to be answered by people screaming at each other and calling names. I’m closing this thread. Perhaps the mods will start a new one to explain some of these issues in a calm and reasonable manner.

On review:

> [@Condescending\_Robot](#):
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> the Internet parody-feminist line of “since my life is a mess no one is allowed to enjoy anything, therefore humor itself is misogynist” shouldn’t become the norm either.

> [@Condescending\_Robot](#):
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> Every single “oh, I know what _I_ would do with that whip :D” post is not only inane in and of itself, it’s designed for the poster to metaphorically or literally jerk off while thinking about how everyone reading that post is getting so ruffled by it. We have a word for involving other people in your sexuality without their consent. Do you know what that word is?

> [@Condescending\_Robot](#):
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> I see the Men’s Rights Activists have arrived. How many bitcoins did you pay for your fedora?

> [@Condescending\_Robot](#):
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> And you keep using barely-coded MRA rhetoric, which means you probably don’t have that much of a problem with rape to begin with (or don’t believe it happens). How reasonable is that?

Just about all of this is way out of line: the attacks on other posters or groups of posters, the comparison of some posters to rapists and the accusation that they don’t object to rape based on their views on this issue. I’m issuing a warning for being a jerk.

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