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

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-finally-get-some-clarification-on-whats-misogynistic-and-off-limits-now/657244/51 "2013-05-02T01:21:10Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> The fact that the comments came early in the thread made them no more relevant and no less sexist.

Yet it is ok for your mod note to be explicitly sexist.

> [@CMU parade controversy over naked woman, dressed as pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmu-parade-controversy-over-naked-woman-dressed-as-pope/657134/41):
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> You know all the discussions we’ve been having recently about reflexive misogyny among some of our male posters? The below are all examples of the kind of jejune “humor” that many women find offensive.

Because, of course, only male posters are capable of making “offensive” jokes. :rolleyes:

Bad call. Again.

And, as I said in the other thread, if the mods insist on enforcing this ill-conceived, utterly unnecessary “paradigm shift”, you need to announce it officially. Everybody does not read every thread in ATMB.

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