# Gender, race, and other issues (split off from Doper Demographics thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 7, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091 "2022-09-07T00:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091/42 "2022-09-06T19:57:50Z")
> [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/73): > > It wasn’t that bad- _mostly._ [. . .] woman complaining about their breasts or whatever, would get “pics or it didn’t happen” stupid joke or two. > [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/73): > > > [@madmonk28](#): > > > > It was a place where rape jokes were the height of wit. > > Hardly. But they were allowed. We’ve got different ideas about what’s not “that bad”. > [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/73): > > Posters thought that was harmless fun, but not so much. it wasn’t done out of meanness. Assuming that such things are “harmless fun” and can be done with no meanness involved is a large chunk of the problem. > [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/76): > > I do not remember any large amounts of female SDMBers posting that they _quit_ due to misogyny. I wouldn’t have come on the board in order to announce why I wasn’t joining the board. I don’t expect that everyone who did join the board, but then quit later on, announced their reasons for leaving. > [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/82): > > The obvious question is why still post here? Because I’m not seeing the extreme extent of such crap that some people are describing (I didn’t join these boards until 2019); and because when I do see such crap I see pushback. Most of the threads I read don’t have anything overt, and when it does show up it very often gets modded. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091)._