Meet the Predators (men need to learn how to recognize and fight rape culture)

[TeamsterDem]

65. Do you have difficulty reading written words? You keep saying I said something that I didn't

I'm not offended by you saying that I might one day hear other men dismissing a woman's humanity. I'm offended that you're perfectly fine with articles that lump ALL men into a group to include rapists and their supporters, as most of us don't fall in that group. Even if it were most it wouldn't be all, as language has different words for all and most, namely the ones I just stated.

That you continue to try and shift the discussion back onto me as if I were the one offending entire swaths of people by generalizing them into some offensive group simply shows you're unable to see your own sins, yet so effective at spotting those of others. If any man on this board were to generalize women by saying they all need some education on something, I'd be one of the first to tell him that his attitude is offensive and arcane. I suspect you'd be right there with me, if not in before me. But when it's done the other way it's evidently just fine with you, something which shows not a dedication towards progressivism and equality but instead towards furthering your own side of things, to hell with everyone else.

I don't need training on how to not support rapists, as I'm already doing a good job of not supporting them. Nor do I need any lessons on how to spot rapists, as any comments about rape are obvious for what they are (and I'd report them to authorities were I to hear ANYONE state or imply that they'd raped someone). Being that I'm a member of the "men" group, it's not fair to say that "men" need this education because if I'm like this I can't be literally the only one, and seeing as I have a pretty long resume in terms of being around the so-called manly groups of our society (U.S. Marine, brother of a fraternity in college, and now a Teamster), I'd say that if it were a majority of men thinking in the way you're alleging then I'd have heard it by now, or at least heard about it on a much wider scale than a lunatic like you who can't even manage to accurately quote what I'd just said, instead putting words in my mouth to try and attack the straw man.

The long and short of it is this: you evidently support stereotypes and generalizations in cases where it doesn't offend some group you might be in, and that is as offensive as your continued undeserved sense of power to tell me where I can and can't discuss things. Just for you, friend, I'll keep posting here, and will make sure to post more often since I now know you seem to irrationally and wrongly believe you have the power to tell me to stop. My opinion carries equal right of expression here on DU as yours, and your incessant demands that I excuse myself from what you think is your turf has equal power of weight as would mine, were I foolish enough to attempt it. Fortunately I'm not, however, nor do I think my opinions should dictate what others do or don't do. Strange that you do seem to think that of yourself.