On "Bitch" and other Misogynist language

[Panasonic]

122. Hm.

People here say that phrase all the time.

Honestly, I voted to hide the thread but understand this, if it was on Meta, I would have voted to leave it - that's why I checked to see if this was a continuing HopeHoops thread or not. I lost a friend yesterday, and I don't want to lose more people, so that's why I'm kind of reluctant to do this kind of thing. I have excused myself from the jury from MANY misogynist threads because I'm a male, and I have women in my family - and I really relate with HH because he has daughters, I have a mom, two sisters, and a wife, so I'm really careful.

Misogyny is ALWAYS going to be a problem here in DU, and I have learned in the past few years (believe me, I've been here a long time) to really avoid those kind of antiwomen threads.

I remember when slinkerwink (a old friend, regularly hangs out at Kos) was offended by the word "b*tch" and complained at Ask the Admins back then, and there was a very long thread discussing it. I'm sure the thread is there somewhere if one bothers to Google it.

So I'm sorry if my initial reaction was to support hiding that post, but upon further review, maybe I should have just excused myself from the jury duty and let others complain about it at 4-1. (Note: I *almost* said the b*tch word, but substituted "complain" instead)