General Discussion

I was about to do it, got distracted by something that happened in the I/P group, and totally forgot to return.

On rereading my post I saw that it could easily be seen as arguing that gender issues should be treated the same way as I.P or guns. I'm strongly opposed to the restriction on those issues in GD, and feel the same way about gender issues. It sucks to see a ban on discussing important issues while seeing the constant appearance of things along the line of 'Straight from YouTube! Cute kitty drinks from a bowl of milk while reciting the collected works of Shakespeare!'

What I was pointing out was that with all these current battles going on, I can see similarities to the battles that led to I/P being kicked out of GD. It's not feminism that'd annoying to DUers, because anyone who finds feminism annoying or a failure shouldn't be participating here, imo. I'm only speaking for myself on what I find annoying, and it's the people yelling past each other and the accusations being flung from all corners. There's little discussion of the actual issue because it all becomes a massive flame-fest.

Of courses there's misogyny at DU, the same as there's homophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and racism. But the majority of DUers are opposed to bigotry, and I've found over the years that discussing issues by kicking it off by implying that many DUers engage in one of those forms of bigotry not only makes people angry, but turns them off what would have been a good message without the outright accusation or implication.

Btw, there's more than one person in that group I've got little time for, but I suspect yr thinking of one I do like