Do you not see that your position is itself a controvertible point that is not widely accepted, that it needs to be argued itself? By inserting your topic into FGM threads, you are begging the question that they are the same thing? That you are doing your argument a disservice, because you come off like a whiny “men’s issues are more important than women’s” jerk rather than someone with a valid debate to be made? That your arguments won’t be taken seriously?
Sounds like a great argument for your thread, the one where you advocate that MGM is just as bad as FGM.
Yes, but if he starts his own thread, he won’t be drowning out somebody else’s thread. How can he show his masculine superiority?
Besides, there would be about four people, apparently, possibly supplemented by a Yale bioethicist. But don’t worry, if he puts half as much work into his own thread as he did in hijacking the FGM thread, it’ll keep going.
Yes. Exactly. Please stop. (Also, Johnathan Chance, that thing you recommended? It didn’t work. I reported this post for threadshitting, it’s not in the pit, when the fuck are you going to do something about it?!)
You deciding something is threadshitting, or trolling or whatever does not make it so. You must stop, right now, making that assumption. If you can’t, I suggest you step back and think about your positions.
We decide what counts as an infraction. You do not. You never will. Your sole responsibility, as a poster, is to report things you think might violate the rules. I continue to encourage you to do that. But we are - not at all - required to act on your reports. Adapt to that fact. Embrace it. Know it.
You’re right, I’m sorry, you clearly have better things to do, like warning me for calling out redpill ideology as toxic.
Question - if we made a thread on misogyny on the dope and made it explicitly clear that SlackerInc was not welcome, would that be enforceable? Could we make that a thing?
Hmm. Speaking for myself - and only for myself - I’d say no. Trying to set a specific topic and asking a moderator to say that only that topic is acceptable? Yeah, I can see that. And I’ve done it, I think.
But asking for a specific person to be outlawed? No, that wouldn’t fly with me at all.
They aren’t hijacks just because you would like to think they are. I guarantee any national blanket ban of FGM is going to ultimately be challenged in the courts on the basis of sex discrimination if male circumcision is not included in the ban. You can’t just plug your ears and say “LA LA LA, DOESN’T APPLY” and make that reality go away.
