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unreadierLizard

(475 posts) Sun Dec 2, 2012, 07:47 PM Dec 2012

So apparently we need to take classes on empathy now [View all]

according to this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021917325#post10

I dunno about the rest of you but I've never once felt having testosterone makes me any more sadistic and selfish. Hell, I've been accused of caring too much of other people and not enough of myself.

This place literally does not feel welcoming to male DU'ers when topics like rape and abortion come to the spotlight.

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So apparently we need to take classes on empathy now [View all] unreadierLizard Dec 2012 OP

Only some of us. Scuba Dec 2012 #1

Huh? n/t unreadierLizard Dec 2012 #2

Just forget about it.. Upton Dec 2012 #3

Why are the subjects of rape and abortion unwelcoming? Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #4

I find your online behavior to be generally cowardly. Bonobo Dec 2012 #6

I'm sorry that you have grown a new misogynist in the men's group. Nt. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #7

Link please. Bonobo Dec 2012 #8

None so blind as those wont see. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #9

Yeah, you've used that one before. Bonobo Dec 2012 #10

Keep up the personal insults. It's very manly. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #11

You have many odd ideas about what manly means. Bonobo Dec 2012 #12

...and most of them appear to be sexist Major Nikon Dec 2012 #22

So is sexism, apparently Major Nikon Dec 2012 #21

Does this mean we can flip this one with Iverglas as the obvious example? Major Nikon Dec 2012 #20

rape is wrong and abortion should be the decision of the pregnant woman. Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #13

So far the person I replied to has nothing else to say. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #15

Does this mean you're going to be teaching empathy classes? Upton Dec 2012 #17

exactly Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #18

I see you spend the majority of your time in the guns group. Upton Dec 2012 #26

You have identified what is probably his central defining characteristic. Bonobo Dec 2012 #29

Pancho! Bring Don Quixote his armor! lumberjack_jeff Dec 2012 #35

What did I *not* say, now? Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #19

We are all collectively guilty for not answering everything here in this forum. nt Bonobo Dec 2012 #23

I get that alot. Along with the "I'm putting the words I wish you would say, in your mouth" move. Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #24

I was at college; you know, unreadierLizard Dec 2012 #27

Correction. That is not why I think you're an asshole. Bonobo Dec 2012 #32

Because the topics are posed as Kobayashi Maru scenarios and not discussions. Gore1FL Dec 2012 #25

Its not just rape and abortion HuskiesHowls Dec 2012 #5

I'm convinced there are those on DU who will use whatever means at their disposal to crush dissent Major Nikon Dec 2012 #41

You are correct the word "sexism" is not in the TOS. Behind the Aegis Dec 2012 #42

I can't get there from here Major Nikon Dec 2012 #43

Abortion is the business of the pregnant woman. End of story. Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #14

The problem with much of the "rape culture" rhetoric is because we are unequivocally against rape. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2012 #34

But we are told "IF YOU DON'T RAPE....WHY SO MADZ???" ProudToBeBlueInRhody Dec 2012 #37

I still haven't seen a broad sociological 'rape culture' explanation that accounts for Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #38

This is classic sexism Major Nikon Dec 2012 #16

i saw that bullshit too. wtf ive no idea what world some people live in loli phabay Dec 2012 #28

Each time you hear a poster talk about "them over in the Men's Group"... Bonobo Dec 2012 #30

Right. Let me try to sort it out in a linear fashion, for everyone. Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #31

I read that rape admission thread unreadierLizard Dec 2012 #33

Most of it is Meta group bullshit ProudToBeBlueInRhody Dec 2012 #36

This message was self-deleted by its author radicalliberal Dec 2012 #39

Although, no one on this planet would be harmed by trying to be more empathic tomorrow Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #40