Look, you idiot, what about her user name pissed you off? Obviously we are not just going to take your word for it. Paraphrase it if you have to.
The backward sentiment expressed. I was taken aback, and more disappointed than pissed off.
What was that? My God, who do you think you are protecting? Just fucking say it.
He’s just jerking us around. Her name probably wasn’t anti-feminist at all, it was just something he didn’t like.
And if not, either put up or shut up.
Huh?
With all due respect, are you seriously saying you don’t want to reveal her username to protect her privacy?
Do you realize how utterly bizarre that sounds?
You’re pitting a person who reacted badly to your reaction to her username on twitter but you’re not going to reveal her username?
The username is “The Anti-Feminist @FemsHaveBallz”
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=I%20don't%20date%20democrats&src=typd (top result)
This was deduced by searching Twitter for “I don’t date Democrats”, per the OP, and looking for a name that could be considered anti-feminist.
And it’s Twitter! There is no expectation of privacy on freaking Twitter! My guess is that on some level OuLordPeace knows he is in the wrong.
There’s another thing regarding usernames, though. The user name “Our Lord Peace” is pretentious as all getout. Without even reading a single post, you can see a username like that and just know what’s coming.
Ok, so now that it’s been established that you attacked a woman for calling herself “the Anti-Feminist@FemsHaveBallz” you’re attacking her as a “monarchist” because she likes being treated like “a princess”?
Respectfully, have you the slightest idea how many girls like the thought of being treated like a Princess?
Hell, huge numbers of women, many self-described feminists loved, loved the movie Frozen, which featured not one but two heroes who were “Princesses”.
I remember a prominent British leftist polemicist who used to regularly attack the American left for being “headlong in relentless pursuit of it’s own irrelevance.”
I’d recommend you might want to rethink your position if you want to be remotely relevant.
So basically he started lecturing an obvious troll. Keep fightin’ the good fight. :rolleyes:
“Disappointed”? Why? I mean, unless she’s a Justin Bieber fanatic who roots for the Flyers and has a mullet. THAT would be a tragedy.
Why don’t they? I realize I’m old at 46, but I’ve never (even as a young woman during Rush’s halcyon “feminazi” days) hesitated to call myself a feminist. Maybe I’m still too old school? And for the record, I’ve never worn Birkenstocks or hated men.
Probably because of people like the OP. Generally, it’s not fun to be lumped in with the self-righteous types. 
Eh, although true, I didn’t think anyone took those types seriously. Kind of like street preachers, you know?
Really?
Then why didn’t a workers’ council somewhere come up with the idea and manage to make the deal instead of Bill Gates?
How is it possible he beat out all of these ninja-like workers’ councils that have such prescient insight into the marketplace?
Besides, when does the council find time to meet when its members are busy mailing disks all day long?
That’s partly it, but also it’s that modern feminism is not about relatively sensible things like ‘women should have the right to vote’ or ‘women should have the right to be engineers, professors, doctors, unionized factory workers , etc.).’ (I’m not a big fan of voting in general, in a completely gender neutral sense, but that’s a separate story). modern feminism, in large part, is largely about a specific set of ideological claims that a lot of people, including many women, reject. To take a few examples, ‘women should have the legal right to abortion’, ‘gender differences are mostly due to social conditioning rather than innate biology’, ‘women and men are the same with respect to most cognitive and behavioural traits’, ‘women who choose to submit to their husbands, as the Bible suggests, are brainwashed idiots’, and so forth.
OurLordPeace Workers self management and cooperatives are cool and all, but they have zero to do with anarchism. The one modern country which enacted workers’ self management and cooperative ownership on a large scale was Socialist Yugoslavia, which was a highly authoritarian government (not totalitarian, but authoritarian) that was not at all anarchic.
Venezuela has tried some interesting things with workers cooperatives as well , but again, they’re the very opposite of an anarchist society.
I’m still learning about Twitter, often the hard way. As for my SDMB name, I was listening to Our Lady Peace at the time. I also figured that if we must have any lord, let it be peace. For the most part, I just looked around my room for inspiration.
I was taking my cue from people like the parents who try to prevent their daughters from being swamped in princess-y stuff. I don’t like to see monarchy romanticized. I’m so thoroughly beholden to sincerity that I tend to miss subtelties, i.e. there doesn’t seem to be much of a gap between wanting to be treated like a princess and thinking that hereditary monarchy is a fine idea. For the same reason, the trolling wasn’t so obvious to me. I’m very literal.
Such political ideas, which were once very common in the US, have been ground down and marginalized in the public mind for generations by an aggressive (and not necessarily conspiratorial) propaganda campaign. It’s gotten to the point that, since 1980 or so, we’ve been on a path towards greater and greater concentration of wealth and power at the top of the pyramid, with welfare for the rich, and free market discipline for everyone else.
FaSinPat (Fabrica Sin Patrones, “Factory Without Bosses”) manages, despite making ceramic tiles all day. The anarchists handled it all over Catalonia just fine.
I completely support the first example, though rights are to be taken and asserted, not granted by alleged superiors. I support the next two in principle. As for the last, anyone who becomes complicit in their own subjugation (and worse, assumes that others must behave the same way, and acts accordingly) due to any book of mythology is not necessarily a brainwashed idiot, but is delusional.
They’re a big part of anarchism, but not the whole story. Yugoslavia’s decentralization was a big part of why that country avoided the pitfalls of the centrally-planned Warsaw Pact, and neighboring Maoist Albania. Yugoslavia was not very wealthy even before being turned into a killing field in WWII, but once Tito gave up on central planning, things really started to pick up. Then they got too ambitious trying to match their population’s rising expectations, got into debt with the IMF, and then …
That’s true, but it seems like, at least for now, things tipped far too heavily towards the state.
This has nothing to do with the grinding down of ideas. It’s pure observation and logic regarding human nature and economics, nothing more nothing less.
The idea of a fair (by some definition) and utopian (somewhat) society is a nice idea and at minimum a large middle class would be great, consolidation of wealth and power certainly can result in pain and misery for many and too much consolidation is probably not a sustainable system.
It would also be nice if bees didn’t sting us.
Where your formula goes completely bat-shit insane is where you think the guy sweeping the floors is the “real work” and the guy with ideas, long hours and taking risks with his own money is the “boss” and that isn’t “real work”.
Of course you agree with those four theses I put forward: you’re a feminist. It should come as no surprise to you that I strongly disagree with them, as do a lot of people (men and women), and that’s the reason why many of us refer to ourselves as broadly opposed to feminism. This is probably neither the time nor place to debate feminism, but suffice it to say that there are a lot of us who think modern feminism involves some claims that are highly dubious morally and intellectually.
As for workers self management, my point is that sort of thing seems to thrive best in context like Yugoslavia where you have a very strong government indeed. I’m all about workers ownership, it’s the ‘no government’ thing that I think is foolish.