Male Centrism at the Dope

Really, ask your kids who their father really is?

Their loss. This is a board for adults. It includes plenty of material offensive to all sorts of people. This thread is a continuation of a the call for censorship.

I am certainly guilty of telling sexist jokes in the wrong context. Guilty of not knowing my audience because I didn’t intend to offend, not guilty of misogyny though. I have stood up for the rights of all people all my life. My mother, loony as she was, was a feminist, and even my narrow minded rigid father supported her. My wife is a feminist as well and she’d put your own sexist assumptions in their place if she cared to engage in this kind of nonsense. Men are different from women, most people notice that at a very early age. If you don’t like the fact that men more readily express their lust for women in our culture then go cloister yourself somewhere instead of trying to silence us. You’d probably be happy in Iran. If men are not treating women equally in their rights I’ll stand against them. But real feminists have fought against special rules for women and censorship over the years because that is the way they were denied their rights. If you want to go back in time just continue along this path. If you want progress then stop lumping all men in with the pool of disgusting people who do not believe in equality, and stop judging men for expressing their natural sexuality in a way that does not bother emotionally mature women by it’s mere existence.

That is a good point but the intricacies of mate selection, being mate worthy, dating, etc are an order of magnitude or more greater than pinching a loaf. Tv shows, movies, magazines, songs deal with relationships vastly more than pooping. Why’s that? Because for most people there is no trouble or mystery to sitting on a toilet or squatting over a hole and taking care of business.

I disagree. Things change because we keep the focus on them, not because we ignore them.

Nope. :slight_smile:

You mean ask my wife. You really are retarded if you don’t know who to direct the question to. :smack: Man, what’s the world coming to when I have to fix your insults?

Your kids know. They wondered why they weren’t dragging their knuckles when they walked. We had to tell them.

Eet eez eendeeed a meeestairy, a pozzlementz for ze ages how such a sing could be!!! Quel dommage! Zut alors!

You calling me an ape?!?!? :mad:

Where’s the SJW’s when I need them?

Post 11 - I said that

From the OP it wasn’t entirely clear which aspect (leader or hawt) you were going for. I will gladly remove you from the list. The leader question is the more interesting IMO anyway (also - Maeve!).

It’s hard to do that when dipshits like you keep railing at us for being overly sensitive and try to make yourselves, or men in general, the wronged party. By whining about censorship against blatantly misogynist posts, you are being one of the disgusting ones. You are part of the problem. Are you proud of yourself?

You know what? It’s not about trying to get laid, it’s trying to show respect and courtesy to half the entire human race by acknowledging that as a 50 year old straight white middle class guy, my own experiences and outlook don’t get to define what’s real and important to other people. Sometimes, you just need to shut up and listen to some other voices for a while.

Actually, I think it’s a pretty good analogy. If for no other reason then I wouldn’t be bothered buy 80 rate the dude threads but the poop stuff would bug me.

That begging said I disagree with you that packing the offending content off the first page would solve my problem with it. I generally have ~50 threads on the front page of each forum and if I make it half way down before moving on to a different forum I’m having a boring day at work. If the non poop people could keep 25 threads alive with more interest then the poop threads then I would say the board is already lost and even if scat talk was eliminated and the scat people went away the board would still die.

I guess my assumption is that there are more people here who want to talk about things other than who’s the hottest so if you talk about those things they will garner more interest and push the other stuff away. Now like I said there are waves and if a poop wave shows up in a week or so I’ll be happy when it ends but if for a couple of seeks it’s poop week on the Dope I get it and I’ll mainly hide in the political end of the Board until it wains. That being said I think starting a pit thread is also a great responce since again it increases the amount of conversation and i would probablh also particpate in a pit thread bitching about the shitty threads.

If I’m wrong and there aren’t more people here interested in threads that don’t make people uncomfortable then the management will have to figure out how many of them will leave if they can’t use that topic any more vs how many will leave if the topic sticks around. Over all there is a trend around here to less active members and I don’t think any one wants to accelerate that more then it has too.

No, I inferred you were a lesser-evolved life form. Leave the apes out of this.

Obviously if we had that many poop threads, they’d all be moved to the new Fecal Forum.

As the (male) author of one of the threads mentioned by the OP, I concur; It was frustrating when I started a thread asking what women think but 24 out of the 39 people who replied were men.

I listen. I’m not compelled to agree with every nuance. One thing I don’t have a problem with is a library, for example, stocking books I’d never read. That’s how I look at Internet forums. Not every thread is for me. Not every post in thread I like is for me. It’s ok for non-interesting or offensive content to exist.

This narcissistic need for everything to be catered to one or not offend one strikes me as immature, counterproductive, and unrealistic.

I’m more annoyed with every thread seemingly needing to work President Trump into. That’s where things are really disproportionate and borderline spammy. Age old questions of Wilma or Betty are rare in comparison.

You must be drinking. Don’t you mean implied? C’mon man. Where is the exasperated Smilie? We need more smilies.

Sunny you have more energy than I do. Whether it’s the guys telling us it’s emotionally mature to ignore things, rather than discuss them, or the guys implying the only reason a guy would come to a woman’s defense in these matters is to get laid, I just can’t anymore.

Again, *thousands *of threads here, most of us are interested in only a smallish fraction of the threads available to read. There are lots of tables having lots of different conversations and you are free to sit or not sit at any of them. There are tables with political discussions going on, religious ones, silly ones, ones about a variety of shows, about different sorts of foods, about philosophy, about pets, about losses and about victories. There are those who get support here and there are jerks who are assholes and differing thoughts about who is the jerk. Anyone, male or female, cannot find a table here that has a conversation of some interest, is probably not a good fit for this board. Looking at GD now … not a single “male-centric” thread on the whole first page. Very few on all of IMHO’s first page.

If the threads the op cites were hate speech it would be another thing, but being offended by the existence of a Ginger v Marianne thread? As done as that has been through the years I still find some of the female responses interesting. That males almost always say Marianne is old hat.
Terminus Est I apologize for having sullied your Maeve v Dolores thread by including in my response a Ginger v Marianne level answer (I just have a crush on Maeve) as well as the which general I’d be wanting to serve under level response. But mine I think was the only one who did not exclusively respond to them as leaders.

Quit being disingenuous. You know good and damned well we aren’t talking about threads like that.

Unless YOU find guidance and answers in threads about rape, porn actresses, masturbation, what woman is hotter, etc. If that’s where you’re getting your answers to those serious questions about mate selection, dating et. al, then the problem isn’t us.