Men's Group

My personal standard is that there are just certain words I don't use because I feel they serve no purpose other than to divide. That's the standard I keep for myself. I don't push that on other people nor am I quick to judge them if they feel differently.

There are some on DU who pretend to know if people on DU are misogynists or not, which is a pretty strong charge if you think about it (I suspect they don't much). When you get right down to it, it's a pretty good trick to 'know' someone simply based on what they post on a message board. You might have your suspicions, but knowing with any certainty who they hate? All they are doing is revealing how much they don't know yet pretend to know. I've known people who throw around all manner of gender stereotypes, yet were fully committed to actually doing real things about gender inequality (besides just writing about it on a message board). I've also known people who were the worst sort of no-shit misogynists you can imagine, but you'd never know it from their language. Well guess what? It's not the blowhards people should be worried about. It's those who keep their hate internalized and simmering just below the surface, and then one day they decide they've had enough and act on it.