Feminists

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WE MUST REALLY BE PROUD THAT OUR FORUM IS SO POPULAR.

But hey -- talk about your SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES, eh????

You know WHY you "honestly" have no idea why this meltdown happened, No.1 Fan? And I'll even grant you "honestly" in that case -- because the reason why you have no idea why it happened is that IT NEVER HAPPENED.

What happened was a concerted attack on the Feminists group by a particular element of the lesbian community, who DO NOT represent all the lesbians of the world OR EVEN all the lesbians at DU. And I and other feminists resisted it. And we seemed to have won the ground of this forum, although we won no protection at this website otherwise. And that just galled and galled and galled, and this forum has been under surveillance ever since, and once it strayed an inch from "ew, what a horrible sexist commercial", the chink was there and the attack was relaunched.

Why do you hate women, No.1 Fan and your friends? Why has your circle become so fixated on vilifying and destroying a group, feminists at DU and in the real world, who you claim should adopt every item of your agenda and take you to its bosom? Bad strategy, I think; don't you?

On your specific theory -- why do you never mention that I was blocked from the LGBT group because I had the temerity to post there in reply to a ... non-factual ... call-out of myself? That I was personally targeted, for some reason, out of all the people who objected to the cattle-market treatment of women by heterosexual male DUers in the thread about the lesbian beauty-contest contestant? That there was a reason why the poster in question targeted me -- well, not a reason, but the fact that her vicious misrepresentation of me had started at least three years earlier? That it all stems from the campaign of the charming "sex-positive" feminists to oust real feminists from the Feminists forum way back then, which they resumed when DU3 was created?

Why? Because you can't carry the day by honest discourse, by sincere exchange, by making your own cases in the way cases are made in civil circles?

Just asking.

Juror #3 asks "why does this person continue to be here if she's so unhappy with DU?"

Well, Juror #3, because somebody's gotta do it. Somebody's gotta stand up for what is right, and for the victims of the hatred of women that permeates this website, and of course the world. Somebody's gotta be willing to get kicked repeatedly by people who should by rights fall over because of their lack of a leg to stand on, but manage to get propped up by the swarm of buddies who rush in to prosecute the war. I don't give a fuck, you see? I've been on the receiving end of those kicks for a very long time, in all the areas of the struggle for social justice I have been active in for decades, and I realized long ago that I didn't actually feel them. So I'd just stand in front of anybody else the kicks were aimed at, who might feel them more, until they were ready. Look how it's worked here. You all have the perfect target: somebody who is not felled by the blows, who does not even lie down and play dead. You all can just keep kicking over and over, and I don't give a flying fuck. It just provides the opportunity to hold you all up to the light for what you are. Schoolyard bullies who know exactly what you are doing.

Many others have been too sickened, although not actually hurt, by the goings on to remain. Many, many others. Not just feminists. Progressives of all varieties. ("Progressive" means something; it is not a new-fangled word for the insipid self-interested "liberal".) This is not the DU where people with intelligence and knowledge could share information and experience. That DU died years ago. This is the Jerry Springer show. People who won't look in a mirror, couldn't bear it if they did, throwing stones at people they know are better.

And at this point, they have won. They have taken this battlefield. They have taken DU for the misogynists, the gun militants,* the free-speech provocateurs, the right wing in all its outcroppings. Sadly for them, they probably think this means something.

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* I see I missed Juror #5 when adding gun militants to my juror exclusion list, which I never did get around to paying much attention to. That thing about telling admins how to run the website? That's all about my ATA posts that resulted in the tombstoning of three right-wing cretins in the Guns forum who had been posting material to make the case that the Obama administration deliberately engineered the sales of guns to Mexican drug cartels that were used in untold numbers of killings in Mexico ... to drum up support for more gun control. Talk about yer loony but really blatantly right-wing conspiracy theories, eh? But I was the only Guns poster to take exception to it, and to bring it to the administrators' attention, with the absolutely proper result. "Why she has never been Tombstoned, or had her posting privileges revoked is beyond me" is the lament that can be found everywhere on the internet where the gun militant faction of the right wing natters about me. Just fyi and all.

Despised by the right wing, reviled by ... well, whoever it is who is prosecuting this vendetta. Funny, eh?