You know what’s even worse than a remark that gives a few looking to be offended people the vapors? A dead board.
Chase off everyone but the SDMB He-Man Women-Haters Club and the board will be dead.
The opposite is also true. Chasing off the bigots actually tends to make places more inclusive and invites more people to join. That’s what gaming culture did. We chased them off to their own subculture of bigoted gamers, and the number of gamers is only increasing.
I know of several posters who don’t post here anymore because of the garbage that people get away with. This is not a trans-friendly board, for instance.
And I’ve definitely seen more from female posters since we started caring about the misogyny problem here.
In somewhat related thought, I was going to post an OP about my daughter’s problems, and my concerns and difficulty in helping her, but knowing a few people will invariably screw everything up is a good reason to spare myself the heartache. This thread was a solid reminder.
If other people are upset by comments you don’t think are a big deal, maybe it’s because you’re a fucking asshole?
Stop trying to force your PC views on Octi. He has a right to be an asshole if he wants! He just tells it like it is. :rolleyes:
The fact that pain looks good on other people is one of the few universal sentiments we all share.
Too bad fewer don’t focus so intensely on the political version.
So using tact in a thread about concerned parent is “having the vapors” now?
I’ll remember that the next time you bitch and moan about the fact that your kids might accidentally see some “potty language”. :rolleyes:
He was probably thinking something similar to when he bragged about sexually harassment towards a nurse and doctor that were treating his eye. What a total scumbag.
Yeah, he has the vapors every time someone curses at him in the pit. I think he just doesn’t want his kids to find out how unpopular he is here.
Oh, they know.* They know*.
Yeah, that was really odious, a humblebrag about how he got away with sexually harassment. Here’s the link
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=836077&page=1
Wasn’t he the guy who got caught using a sock a year or two ago? IIRC, he was in a thread making controversial statements along with a newish poster who sounded suspiciously like him, someone asked the other poster a question, and he ended up answering it by mistake, getting confused as to which account he was on. Does that ring a bell with anyone? I know at least two other posters reported it, but nothing ever came of it. That’s about the time he went on my Ignore list.
I think that his thought process was “bitches! Am I right fellas?”
Shouldn’t you be spamming ATMB with mod trolling snark generating nonsense?
Coming down with the vapors?
Like you do when griping about conservative bias?
Well a mod denied that there was any such thing and then another mod said that was proof and shut down discussion. Did that give me the vapors? No. It just made it obvious that there are some easily manipulated people in charge which is why this whole misogynistic tactic is interesting in its genesis and clever implementation.
I realise this is a hard concept for as mentally deficient a specimen as your cunty self to follow, but there’s this thing called “multitasking”?
Also, you piss-poor attempt at snark would have been more effective if you’d posted it in some timely fashion, rather than a day later, motherfucker.
Back in 1984 I was at a school for bakers. In addition to lab classes we had lectures on various subjects.
Each class had sixty-odd students. We were about twenty percent female. Maybe one third of us were non-US students.
I remember one series of lectures that included a talk on women in management positions. I really liked the speaker, he was quite cool. One guy, from Canada it was, raised his hand to speak his opinion that he didn’t think women should be in management because of impaired judgement, “There’s this, uh, thing that happens to them once a month.”
We women sat in a clump, and you could see our fangs begin to lengthen, and our claws grow as we prepared to spring. The whole thing got defused when the speaker leaned forward towards the guy, opened his eyes really wide, and asked “Are you talking about their raging hormones?” Everyone collapsed in laughter and the dude sunk back into his seat, his face flaming red.
I wish I had the talent for good comebacks like that.