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311. If you are offended by these threads, why not just pass on by?

Leaving aside the question of why-oh-why "rape is never the victim's fault" and an Indian PSA about ogling would so incense people on DU, why not just pass by?

Here are a few of the threads on GD that are not aimed at me:

The dog poop thread. I don't care.
The Steelers refs thread. I don't follow football.
The Citizenship test. I have taken it in the past and did pretty well.
The Duck guy threads. All of them.
ACA threads, unless it is someone's good news about getting covered, which I like to read about. I'm covered at work, and not much affected.

None of those threads require my contributions. I am not angry that they are on GD, I don't feel that I am required to respond, I do not think they need to be consigned to a dark corner of DU because I am not the subject of them. I don't feel that any of them are part of an agenda or a conspiracy against me, even the ones that are covered ad nauseam here on DU.

I do not think that the people posting them need to come to some kind of agreement with me about their validity or importance.

I am grown up enough to understand that they just aren't about me. Because not everything is.

We all get it. There are people on DU who don't like the threads about women's issues. But there are men and women here who find them helpful and informative, and so they will continue.