Maybe we should all report colander’s offensive, stereotyping, and male shaming post and see what happens. I’m honestly curious and not at all being sarcastic.
If you don’t like making casual, offhand remarks about what gets your chub a-swellin’ around strangers who don’t want to visualize said chub, then I ain’t talking about you. I’d say that leaves most men in the clear.
/hangs head in shame
I’m really, really trying hard to imagine what y’all must think of as a healthy relationship.
“Good morning sweetheart, have I ever told you how gorgeous you look right when you wake up?”
“Eat shit and die, sexist!”
Valentine’s Day must be a hoot for y’all.
If you don’t walk around with no pants handing out rubbers on a college campus with your pubes shaved into a neat little cross, no one was talking about you in that other thread. Yet you still somehow take offense on behalf of the woman who did. BUT it’s okay for you to use language to shame men that are actually members of this board?
This is where I don’t understand what’s acceptable and what’s not. So apparently targeting men is ok, even if they’re posters here, with actual shaming language, but making stupid dirty jokes if a woman is involved-- ANY WOMAN ON THE PLANET-- is not.
Is that what you’re saying, colander? I’m really, really curious to hear what the mods actually finally decide on this.
I know you are being sarcastic but it is coming to this, an extreme over reaction. As a woman I think the moderation is getting out of hand. It’s like board sanctioned white knighting and frankly offensive.
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Pandering to The Easily Offended Since 2009
(It’s easier than we thought!)
That’s part of why I asked if it was a whoosh… this really is a variation of Poe’s Law where the most uptight, sex-negative, White Knighting arguments are indistinguishable from parody.
I don’t personally care about the jokes that much but I too find the interjection of gross old man sexuality everywhere to be offputting and under-moderated. As I said above, there are also women who do this.
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?
Hitler?
Should you now be Moderated for the sexist nonsense here where even behavior that you say women engage in is “gross old man sexuality”? Should we all declare how very hurt and offended we are, in order to gain enough political currency to get your opinion silenced? Or should we be expected to have the emotional self control of adults?
Have you always been able to read minds over the internet, or is this a new thing? Perhaps some people post things for whatever reason seems good to them, and they don’t give a second though to how very “ruffled” some people will get by it. Perhaps, just perhaps, most normal people don’t waste time thinking about how someone can take offense if they try really hard, and certainly aren’t getting sexual satisfaction from it. It’s rather odd that that’s what you assume, to be honest. Rather odd…
Good gods, you’re right!
We’re one step away from Handshake Rape!!!
I see the Men’s Rights Activists have arrived. How many bitcoins did you pay for your fedora?
On the other hand, another probably equally “small, vocal minority have managed to get TPTB to enforce their position” prior to this recent change of events. Now they are upset that their apple cart has been disrupted. I suppose it just depends on which “vocal minority” you’d rather “pander” to, right?
Ah, much like the descriptions in this thread of women’s delicate sensibilities, the fact that they’re shrinking violets and how they’re uptight? So much similarities, so little time to actually comment on both I see.
Regardless of the above, I do feel for the moderators trying to sort out this mess. The constant him of inappropriate, for lack of a better word, discussion is unfortunate. However, I can’t foresee a simple way to intervene that doesn’t cause an atmosphere of heavy handedness. That said, since missteps are inevitable, it would seem more prudent to work with the moderators to iron out something conciliatory to both parties rather than belittle and minimize the so-called opposition.
You seriously think women are being mind raped by off color jokes? Geez, when did my gender become so fragile and defenseless?:rolleyes:
Dude, you just compared making jokes on the internet with rape.
You’ve gone a bridge too far, now, to pretend that those folks who disagree with you are Men’s Rights Activists instead of average folks who simply don’t feel that offense is the currency of the realm.
While we’re speaking of words that people here apparently don’t know the definition of…
It can be okay to say all kinds of things to someone who you have a pre-existing relationship with.
That does not mean that it is totally cool to loudly say those things about someone who you have no relationship with in front of a large crowd of people, the vast majority of whom you also have no relationship with.
This is the difference between masturbating in your bed at home and masturbating on stage at the Apollo. I hope this helps.
Actually, the claims about women’s “delicate sensibilities” and how they’re “shrinking violets” are the White Knights’ claims as to why women need to be ‘protected’. That some but not all people, some of whom happen to be women, have uptight arguments is a separate issue.
Now that would be entertaining.
I’ve followed all these threads and I don’t recall anyone saying women need to be “protected.” Since I might have missed it, could you point me to some examples? Because I’m assuming it must’ve happened frequently for the many allusions I’ve read to the above referenced.
ETA: That was to **Finn **.