History of Feminism

Believe me, I've tried to express things in as conciliatory a way as I can, and people still whine and complain and take every damn thing personally.

"Generalize much? How can you presume to characterize people here with such a sweeping generalization, based on nothing more than your apparent mind reading capabilities?"

I'm not a huge fan of sweeping generalizations myself, but if you pay enough attention you can start to notice fairly obvious patterns of behavior. And when that behavior is clearly unbecoming of conscientious, progressive people, someone has to call it out lest it become the acceptable norm.

"We can't deem each and every offense as cruelty, when, more likely than not, it's a result of cultural indoctrination that
takes a lifetime to overcome."

I don't disagree with this at all. But just because people's attitudes or behaviors are the result of "indoctrination" doesn't make them okay. And if no one ever tells them that this or that isn't okay, how will they know?

"Yes, point out a comment as offensive, but say *why* explicitly in an effort to educate."

Fine by me. But people will still take something personally when you didn't mean it that way at all. After a while it frankly gets to be exhausting.

"But when it comes to DUers, education would likely work."

You're a bit more optimistic than I am, I must say...

"... not prefaced by an insinuation that the DU member is less than one who is truly and purely progressive..."

I know what you're saying, but honestly that's a bit rich when the very attitudes we're battling against are predicated on the notion that one race, gender, etc. is inherently superior to another. Even the complaining about "white privilege" - as a concept or simply as a phrase - smacks implicitly of white supremacy, as if white people's relative advantages in society were simply the natural order of things.