Do you think that feminists

[boston bean]

343. There are people on the internet as well as DU who

Feel that Equal rights and protections under the law are discriminatory towards men.
Feel that that there is no inequity for women regarding Equal opportunities and equal pay for equal work.
Feel that Reproductive rights ought to be limited, ie are anti abortion.
Take great offense to the discussing Opposition of rape and rape culture.
Say that women are the perpetrators of domestic violence and that almost all of it is reciprocal violence.

Many of those issues are discussed over and over again here on DU and many feminists find such opinions to be quite offensive, yet they are the ones who are told have a problem with their tone, which is just quite sexist itself or HoF is trolling, or those feminists suck, those feminists are damaged. It is away to avoid the issue, and make it personal against feminists one does not like on DU. That is where I am asking for a bit more consideration from some, instead of re-living the past and attacking people because they might hold some different opinions than them about prostitution, sex, porn. And I feel the same vice versa.


I will agree, although I am not to sure why you insist on continually bringing it transphobia up to me, but it is a very small minority of feminists who are. Most will agree with you. And YES, I agree that should be called out wherever it is seen.

I was in two very recent threads about it on DU where there were a few men who were being quite transphobic and got banned. I was posting in those threads against that as were many feminists. If I see it, I call it out. Maybe you were off DU that day. But it wasn't in feminist threads where you see this or in HoF.

Now, does that make my positions more clear and help to move this discussion forward? Can feminists disagree on certain issues, most definitely. I've never denied that and nor am I absolutely consistent between my positions one hundred percent of the time, because I can see both sides of the issue dependent upon the variables. But damn, both sides of those controversial positions, ie prostitution, porn, sex work, within feminism do deserve to be discussed here on DU and elsewhere without continual personal attacks. Will I see you joining in support with the issues we agree on, which are the core values of feminism? I hope to see more feminists speaking out about the things we do agree on, and wish we could all just drop the personal animosity and discuss our differences (except bigotry) in a more calm and friendly manner. It's got to start somewhere. I'm willing to do that. I hope that those feminists who are more stuck on personality and tone, will join as well. We just might see less of our core values being attacked on this website.