# Misogyny on board **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 13, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-on-board/655617 "2013-04-13T17:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 462
**Author:** ![EverwonderWhy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EverwonderWhy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EverwonderWhy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-on-board/655617/462 "2013-04-16T21:51:45Z")
My two cents as someone not involved in the threads that inspired this one, nor a long time member, but coming across posts like these: > [@Guys, Y U no listen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-y-u-no-listen/655424/432): > > Maybe when you women calm down, we can talk about it. > [@billfish678](#): > > IIRC I too made a “calm down women” comment in that thread. First it was sorta a joke. Second, it was because a bunch of WOMEN were jumping the ass of the specific poster. > > … > > Well, BS. Sometimes you gals do need to be told to “calm down”. Not exactly because you are women when you complain but because you know what? Sometimes your complaints are BS and you DO need to calm down. If I can on occasion tell a man to calm down I can also tell a woman to do the same. > > Get over it and calm down. > > And whats wrong with “you people” 🙂 These posts are inflammatory. I am all for free speech, transparency and not over-policing posters or enforcing political correctness, but these posts insult women as a group - women who may not even share the position of the person(s) being insulted. It is one thing to tell another poster to ‘calm down’ or ‘act rationally’ by calling them out by name, but when you call them out by gender/race/religion/sexual orientation … group membership, using a derogatory stereotype commonly employed to silence and marginalize that group in the past? It’s beyond the pale, IMO. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-on-board/655617)._