Same here. His subsequent reactions and posts were a very childish response.
Moving on…“Board Culture” has been brought up here and elsewhere as some sort of defense of what is going on, but culture isn’t static by definition. It changes as times and minds change, and I don’t think the change being asked for here is a step back.
I agree also, and have admitted I was at fault for those kind of things. I doubt I was the worst perpetrator, but I was being inconsiderate.
Do you really have the right to tell women how they should feel or what they should endure because, well…you know what’s best for them?
Are men here treated with or talked about with respect and dignity? This thread is full of counter examples.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20998879&postcount=18
How is “banana” any different than “boobies”? And comments about the size of said banana?
Suppose the topic was women’s breast cancer. Do you feel the same compulsion to bring up male prostate cancer? Or, if you insist on sticking to similar anatomical geographies, the far less frequent but no less real occurrence of male breast cancer?
Regardless of where you stand on the topic of male circumcision, why is it necessary to offer a male-centric perspective on the subject of what is exclusively a female-centric experience/issue of this caliber with all its baggage (i.e.: FGM)?*
*and no, this isn’t meant as an opening to re-litigate the topic of circumcision.
Intellectual consistency, as you put it, does have value. But so does knowing when to shut the fuck up when that value isn’t being threatened in any way simply by omission because sometimes it’s okay for it not to be about your (generic use of your, here) precious sense of self importance.
I thought Manda JO said this wasn’t about whether the men of the SDMB were culpable, or whether they ought to change. Instead we should be listening to women tell how they experience the SDMB.
Regards,
Shodan
The point should be that everyone is treated or talked about with respect and dignity, where that is appropriate behavior. This is the Pit, it’s not required here, but it often reveals the true nature of a Doper. Here in the Pit is where I usually lose any respect for a Doper I may have when they reveal their true feelings that they are covering up elsewhere just to avoid getting warned for it.
Have you read any political threads on this board?
I’m not telling anyone how they should feel. Each person’s feeling and experiences are individual. People can feel how they wish. I am saying that I don’t like the Heckler’s Veto and I don’t like people who claim offense thinking they have the right to,remove everything they claim is offensive.
In Kindergarten or before we used to learn to deal with things we found disagreeable. Now we give college students, supposedly so-called adults, Play-Doh and crayons. Now, I’m not saying there isn’t a disproportionate amount of male centric content. But that’s a *natural * function of board populations and one that I don’t find problematic because the *rational * solution is simple and obvious.
This and it’s nominal predecessor aka the Skald-drama can be summarized as “I don’t like this and neither should you it shouldn’t exist and you are a rotten-bad misogynistic old white male if you think otherwise and if we don’t get our way we’ll leave just you see!.”
You folks weren’t pleased with the NSFW tag and are now trying another gambit. C’mon now!
That thread was about something called “Penis Pocket Pants”-Lewd comments was all it deserved from any/all posters, male or female. Did you deliberately search for the worst possible example you could find…or was that the only example you could find where women interfered in a thread about men’s clothing?
Skald’s fan club, by virtue of declining to answer, not you. 
I’ve read the whole thread now. I have thoughts, but the first one that comes to mind is that I really appreciate monstro’s posts too. There are several posters who regardless of the topic of the thread, if I’ve participated, or not, etc. that if I see their name I will read the post. monstro is among that group because I want to know what she has to say.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.
(I think I used ellipses correctly)
I think that we have the same fears. I was forced out of the closet. I posted. The board support helped me threw a hard time. I’ve always tried to be/do right.
But I can’t Darwinize my siblings. To be clear, I have a lot of white privilege. But to exercise it I have to pretend to be something I am not. I DO EXERCISE IT. Damn.
The horror. The horror.
Jesus! Is that Eastern time? Central time? Pacific time? GMT?-----I wrote this post long ago and don’t know how to post it.
Is it just me or has this thread been taken over by a bunch of dudes yelling at each other about how their opinion matters the most?
Not one square inch where they don’t yell “Mine!”
Anatomical geography is irrelevant. What’s relevant is whether it has logical ramifications.
That’s what would apply in the case of women’s breast cancer. It would depend on what aspect was being discussed, and many aspects would have no logical ramifications as to male prostate cancer or whatever. But if someone was advocating a principle as applied to women’s breast cancer which was inconsistent with widely accepted principles applies to male prostate cancer or childhood ear infections or whatever else, then it would be appropriate to raise those other issues.
Sorry about that.
Sometimes it is hard to resist the urge to beat down the wild bore.
We should listen. Why wouldn’t we want to? Then perhaps, after you’ve respectfully listened they will give you the same consideration and listen to your points. This might be a two way street for you.
But insinuating they are wrong when you clearly have no idea what they are saying isn’t, well, isn’t really helping is it?