Of course feminists have a right to discuss issues, and people have a right to not agree with them (but when you don't agree you are automatically either a sexist or just stupid and need educated/preached to).
I think the OP was calling for more intelligent and less inflammatory discussions - which cannot happen when every human on the planet but feminists are sexists who just want to rape everyone with their eyes.
The discussions basically go like this:
"So when I was at the store today a lady was having problems with her shopping cart, she had a small child in it and the wheel was busted. I offered to grab her another one so she didn't have to push that thing all the way to front of the store to get another with all those groceries and a baby."
Replies on DU:
"God, how can you be so sexist! How do you know she wanted help? Were you checking her out and raping her in your mind first, is that how you noticed her? Why can't men just leave women alone? Do you feel she was too weak to get her own cart? What if it was a man with a child, I suppose you would have just passed on by since there was no possible sex involved for helping the damsel in distress."
"Oh I know. I was creep-ed out when some guy walked up to me in trader joe's one day and told me my purse was about to fall out of the cart. I know what he wanted. I caught him looking at me when he passed me in another aisle. He just happened to come down the same aisle I was later? I don't think so."
"He was just asserting his male privilege and hunting. Bet he went home and fantasized about how you were going to repay him. This is how it starts. Did you offer to give her your number just in case she needs your 'help' again in the future? *I had it happen to me* - some man looked at me in a bar, no, not looked, stared right at me. Then he walked over and starting talking to me. I didn't want that, he forced himself into my space. Why do men think they can talk to women when they are out for a drink?"
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