# Der Trihs is a Misogynistic Jackass who gives both progressives and men a bad name **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 17, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748 "2012-08-17T04:26:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/1 "2012-08-17T04:26:41Z")
I know Der Trihs likes to portray himself as the defender of the downtrodden against the horrible right-wingers but truth be told, he’s almost as bigoted as New Deal Democrat and a host of others. It’s just that the people he has issues with aren’t blacks, but are instead women. In a recent thread he attacked a female poster after she asked: > [@](#): > > Should I have just assumed that all young males are potential rapists? Wouldn’t that be glaringly sexist on my part? by declaring: > [@](#): > > **It would make you a typical American woman** , is what it would make you. Plenty of women on the very board defend that very position; that you should treat every passing male as a potential rapist, and that doing so isn’t sexist in the least. Treat every man you meet as if at any moment he’s going to grab you and drag you into an alley to rape, while any men nearby cheer him on. **That as far as I can tell is the modern American female norm when it comes to how they feel about men; we’re monsters in their eyes.** > > Complaining about being treated as a potential rapist is sexist as far as they are concerned, however. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15388332&postcount=142](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15388332&postcount=142) I should add that I am far more of an “other” than he will ever be considered and I’ve never seen any evidence that most women view me as a “monster” or “potential rapist” and find his whining as asinine as I do people ranting about how most blacks are thugs, criminals, or rapists. I’m also reminded that he’s the guy who said he believed that he should videotape every time he had sex with a woman to make sure she didn’t falsely accuse him of rape. Now, I don’t know why he feels the way he does, but in my experience the vast majority of men who have such bigoted opinions of women feel this way due to persistent rejection from women who are fairly good judges of character or, to put it more crudely, having a difficult time getting laid. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/2 "2012-08-17T04:29:20Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Der Trihs is a Misogynistic Jackass who gives both progressives and men a bad name And atheists. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/3 "2012-08-17T04:38:23Z")
And dyslexic athletes who sit out a year of eligibility ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/4 "2012-08-17T04:43:09Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > And atheists. Yup, a third group I could be described as being a part of FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/5 "2012-08-17T04:46:09Z")
And Red Shirts ---
**Author:** ![YourAdHere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@YourAdHere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YourAdHere)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/6 "2012-08-17T04:48:07Z")
I thought it was a she…? ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/7 "2012-08-17T04:50:28Z")
And every security guard who was ever killed on Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/8 "2012-08-17T04:50:42Z")
No, Der Trihs is a guy. Read the bolded parts of the OP - he refers to American men, then says “We’re monsters…” ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/9 "2012-08-17T04:53:38Z")
> [@fumster](#): > > And dyslexic athletes who sit out a year of eligibility It took me a second but…😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/10 "2012-08-17T04:54:25Z")
This is news? Why? ---
**Author:** ![YourAdHere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@YourAdHere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YourAdHere)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/11 "2012-08-17T04:55:37Z")
Yeah, I saw it afterwards. I don’t know why I thought that. Sorry, carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/12 "2012-08-17T05:06:17Z")
Hmmmm a **Der Trihs** pitting. Must be mid-August \ ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/13 "2012-08-17T11:00:04Z")
Misogyny is just as prevalent on the left as the whole Rebecca Watson Vs the so called progressive skeptical community have demonstrated. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/14 "2012-08-17T11:13:40Z")
Eh, where I went to university in Australia (in the late 80s, to mid 90s), the university student newspaper had a footnote at the bottom of every front page saying “All men are capable of rape!” in bold. I never heard a student or employee of the university mention it (either as objectionable or as commendable). It was just there. I thought it very strange, but I don’t know whether a woman or a man was responsible for writing it and including it in every edition. I kind of understand where DT is coming from. ---
**Author:** ![spanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@spanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spanna)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/15 "2012-08-17T11:15:01Z")
Do you deny that there are a vocal sub set of women who hold those views? If not then this pitting appears to be over the size of this sub set, whether it is a minority or a majority oh and … “women who are fairly good judges of character” … Have you seen some of the monsters “some” women stick with because they know that they are good deep down, their judgement like mens judgement varies from person to person ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/16 "2012-08-17T11:20:44Z")
I suspect that someone got the wrong answer on his “DO U LIKE ME Y N” note in 3rd grade and never quite recovered. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/17 "2012-08-17T11:22:32Z")
**Der Trihs** is an extremely abrasive ideologue who, based on his posts here, can only see the world in black and white. In my experience the people who are like that tend to be very caustic in their interpersonal relationships, in addition to being frankly weird and unsettling. All this combines to mean **Der Trihs** is potentially an adult male virgin, or alternatively has been laid a very small number of times but has never held a relationship together. This, over many years, would I’m sure create extreme resentment towards men. I think there are even a few dating threads out there where he complained obliquely about how women basically are only interested in abusive men and etc. ---
**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/18 "2012-08-17T11:37:27Z")
I think Der Trihs is interesting, makes good arguments and is intelletually stimulating. He can indeed be abrasive, but would not qualify for a top ten position in that ranking in my opinion. He tends to be a bit black/white and uses hyperbole a lot, but it’s still on an intellectual level. I think this pit thread is a bit lame. Speculating on his sex life etc… not very mature. All in all I think Der Trihs contributes in a positive way to this board, wheras this thread does not. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/19 "2012-08-17T11:37:27Z")
He’s right. I _want_ to rape women, repeatedly, then beat the shit out of them if they dare to complain about it. Then rape them again. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748/20 "2012-08-17T11:53:11Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > **Der Trihs** is an extremely abrasive ideologue who, based on his posts here, can only see the world in black and white. “And dagnabbit, there ain’t room on this board fer the both of us!” _\_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-is-a-misogynistic-jackass-who-gives-both-progressives-and-men-a-bad-name/631748.md?page=2)