Does nobody recall that topic bans for specific posters are absolutely a thing on this board? Did you all likewise battle for the rights of that one guy to shit talk about his wife? Or the bondage ban? You think this is any different? Because it’s not–and if men feel all uncomfortable when women talk about how their board behavior grosses us out then why not STFU and stop for one fucking second and think that’s how we feel almost constantly? You all are literally arguing that you should have the right to disrespect our point of view, discount our feelings and ignore or handwave away basically anything you don’t want to hear–you feel entitled to have these rights. Yeah. No.
That mods would pay attention, take our opinions seriously, not just ignore us if we find something uncomfortable, and mod if they get multiple reports of such instances. My fellow women posters might disagree, but I don’t want him banned. I don’t want his hypotheticals to stop because obviously others enjoy them. I only want the degradation to end.
Octopus, it’s clear you’re only here to argue with and mock us. I don’t recall ever seeing one thing from you that contributes anything worthwhile to any conversation. You’re not worth further attention.
ETA: Just saw SmartAleq’s post about a topic ban. Excellent idea.
I mentioned that possibility in post 505. I would probably oppose it though and I don’t share your characterization. Then again, FTR I’m not familiar with the board history that you alluded to.
ETA: I am happy that we are moving to specifics though. I see a lot of problems though, not least that “Making posters uncomfortable” has never been a criteria here. Conservatives on the board constantly remind us that they are made uncomfortable all the time.
Oh sweet summer child, does it count if it’s only the ladies that object?
There’s a big difference between political ideology and sexism, racism, etc.
Men already have no end of advocates and assurances that things are Just Fine And Dandy As They Are so, since I only have enough energy to fight one battle at a time, I’m just fine with letting the men fight their own battles. Unrustling jimmies is a duty I rejected many years ago and have no interest in resuming.
It’s the Pit, not ATMB…
My posts in this thread gave you constructive advice and you and others chose to ignore it in favor of deliberate misinterpretation in order to express faux outrage.
This is why this thread won’t die. It’s not faux outrage. Have some vocabulary words for the kids.
Fuck
Shit
Cocksucker
Dingleberry
Prick
Asshole
Felcher
Queef
Santorum
Son of a bitch
Bugger
Bollocks
Choad
Wanker
Twat
Knob
Jizzstain
Fuckwit
Ballsack
Shitgibbon
Let me know when you’re done explaining these. I’ll get you some more.
I’ll endorse trigger warnings in OPs that discuss sexual assault and similar difficult topics (if it’s not clear in the thread title). It takes almost no effort (just say “Hey this hypothetical involves a survivor of sexual assault” or something like that) and is more than worth it if it helps just one poster avoid being creeped out, or worse.
If you like, don’t think of it as “women” who are offended, but instead think of a particular woman that you like and respect and admire. Can you do that? Give her a name and a face. Now, here’s a hypothetical for you. Your friend - or wife, or sister, or mother, or girlfriend, or niece - is sitting at a table in the break room at work, and one day this guy she’s seen around comes in holding some papers, and sits down and says he wants to read through a story he’s been working on about families. And she shrugs and says ‘sure’, and this guy starts to read his story, and before he’s got a couple of sentences in he’s talking about rape and incest and women being belittled and degraded. And she says "Jesus, dude, what the hell?', but the guy just kind of smirks and asks he what she thinks of his story. So she gets up and walks out, but the next day he’s there again in the break room, grinning and clutching another story. And it goes on day after day, and he’s holding forth at the lunch table, and sometimes the stories are about rape and sometimes they aren’t, more often than not there are women being put down and abused, but whenever she tries to speak up for herself it’s plain that the management aren’t interested in doing anything about the guy - hell, she’s heard one junior manager offering to proof-read them for him - and while some of her colleagues are sympathetic, a lot of them just shrug and say ‘So what? They’re just stories, and some of them are quite interesting.’ Now, how would you feel for your this particular woman you look up to, having to put up with that day after day in a place where she ought to be able to just sit and eat her lunch and read her book in peace?
Okay, that’s both funny and on point.
Kids reading over your shoulder again trollputz?
Potty mouth. And why the interest in my kids? That’s pretty damn creepy.
And the current solution is use the “ignore” feature. There is nothing at all hard about that. The only downside is it would result in less snark. That’s why the ignore feature isn’t being used and why some of these unhinged giraffe posters can’t let it go.
Ooh. Faux outrage. It’s the Pit. Stop complaining about the foul language every time you visit. This time you used your kids as an excuse. Are you saying they’re not really the reason you don’t like swearing in the Pit? Color me surprised.
Why are you compelled to make stuff up? C’mon now, let’s stay grounded in reality.
That was a good list. I still don’t know what some of those mean.
By grounded in reality, you mean feet wet under the bridge, right? Troll speak?
Get the fuck out of the Pit, cretin.
Let me refresh your memory.
Thanks for my own quote. Now where in that quote or a subsequent quote do I imply something different? Are they always over my shoulder? No. Do they live in a pouch like I’m a kangaroo? No. No they don’t. But they do see a lot what I read.
Use whatever language you like. Sometimes I’m a potty mouth.:eek: None of us are perfect.
You’re the dildo fucking buttplug who brought them up in the first place in order to shame us out of swearing. Go fuck buttfuck a cactus.