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creepy long-time lounge oddballs who were subsequently banned for it-- I might buy the "misogyny is rampant on DU" line.

As it is, though, I don't. Ask for the examples of said "misogyny", it's usually something like the "hot celebrity thread" (and sorry, nothing is going to convince many of us- a majority, actually- that finding people physically, sexually attractive somehow = "hating" them) or else (this is my favorite) misogyny consists of people asking where the misogyny is. By merely challenging the assertion, you are proving it. Voila!

Then, of course, there's the blatant misrepresentation of statements like this, which unlike the example I posted upthread, pretty damn clearly doesn't mean what it was taken out of context to mean:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1114&pid=9762

Misogyny- real misogyny- does occur but it is usually swiftly dealt with by MIRT or admin, as the case may be, and roundly condemned by everyone else, including the people in this group.

Last time I checked, the ONLY two names being regularly, seriously bandied about by most of DU for the Democratic Nomination in 2016, are both women. I don't think that would be the case if DU was reflexively somehow "anti-woman". Also, for the record, I don't think DU is reflexively anti-Man, either.

I think most of this place doesn't give a flying fuck about most of the goofy gender brou-ha-has, and rightly so.