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BainsBane

(53,026 posts)
20. "Denigrating their ex"?
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 06:42 PM
Jan 2014

You mean like you did in the post Geek Tragedy linked to, where you decided your ex girlfriend was some sort of lesson that applied to everyone in HOF?

I don't recall anyone in HOF talking about ex-partners. I see discussions about feminism. If you have evidence, I suggest you provide links. In fact, of all the time I've spent reading and posting there, I don't think I know anything about anyone's exes.

I will also point out that by not treating members as individuals and instead imagining they are all the same based on some conception in your mead of a group is quite far from understanding another's point of view. It's not even recognizing people as individual human beings.

You wanted a big pity party about how oppressed men are, and it didn't work out as you hoped, so naturally you turn to attacking feminists. If you don't like something GeekTragedy says, address him individually, but projecting your issues onto an entire group is precisely the kind of thing you accuse others are--creating entire groups into adversaries and imagining the world in black and white. I also fail to see how he can be guilty of hating all men when he himself is male.

The issue as hand is not how much you dislike HOF but whether you actually read the content of the article you linked to and how you think it supports your assertion that the media presents men as stupid. Yet somehow you can't stay on the subject of your own OP without engaging in gratuitous attacks against dozens of people not even involved in this thread. Time to start looking in the mirror before you accuse others.

It quotes them? Fumesucker Jan 2014 #1
From a site called "god discussion": "do women have too much power now?" redqueen Jan 2014 #2
You know what makes men look stupid? geek tragedy Jan 2014 #4
+1000000000 BainsBane Jan 2014 #13
I did and thanks to you, I just won a mental bet with myself. RC Jan 2014 #11
wouldn't that mean you also lost a mental bet with yourself? nt geek tragedy Jan 2014 #12
LOL! redqueen Jan 2014 #14
Nope. You can't even know what the bet was, because I told no one. It was a mental bet. RC Jan 2014 #17
but, if "you" made the bet with "yourself", and "you" won, that means "yourself" lost. nt geek tragedy Jan 2014 #19
"Denigrating their ex"? BainsBane Jan 2014 #20
You totally misread me. What a surprise. RC Jan 2014 #25
It doesn't upset me that you posted this at all BainsBane Jan 2014 #26
Because I knew when I posted that, who would show up to disparage what I posted. RC Jan 2014 #29
What you posted shows you are a troll muriel_volestrangler Jan 2014 #31
+1 pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #32
Well, in that case, you are making my case better than I did. RC Jan 2014 #35
What makes you a troll is saying the following muriel_volestrangler Jan 2014 #37
yes, tee-vee shows showing men not good at housework is totally the same geek tragedy Jan 2014 #27
yeah, those bitter people who obsess on past relationships gone bad and project their issues geek tragedy Jan 2014 #22
Exactly, it's an old joke that men can't handle domestic matters treestar Jan 2014 #40
"do women have too much power now?" geek tragedy Jan 2014 #3
The media makes everyone look stupid. MineralMan Jan 2014 #5
Speaking-as a man- Beach Rat Jan 2014 #6
Whoa, I almost missed "10 Dumb Lies Women Tell Men" redqueen Jan 2014 #7
doesn't this poster tell certain feminists that they're projecting their personal geek tragedy Jan 2014 #10
Is it? redqueen Jan 2014 #15
yep. the below was submitted without irony (or self-awareness) geek tragedy Jan 2014 #16
Thank you for posting that. RC Jan 2014 #18
I went and read that treestar Jan 2014 #41
... Spider Jerusalem Jan 2014 #8
That's an interesting response. Orrex Jan 2014 #21
Yeah, when we see men being shown as incompetent with household finances then geek tragedy Jan 2014 #23
Agreed. Very much so. raven mad Jan 2014 #24
exactly right. and if you counted, there are just as many stupid women characters on TV- always have bettyellen Jan 2014 #33
Nah, we do a superior job of it all on our own. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #9
Post removed Post removed Jan 2014 #28
Please post the entire alert message. RC Jan 2014 #30
Here you go... Quantess Jan 2014 #38
The comments are certainly not flattery to the OP n/t etherealtruth Jan 2014 #42
'Don't expect me to referee this flamebait but I will be amused by it' Ohio Joe Jan 2014 #34
Definitely noticed this in commercials oberliner Jan 2014 #36
It's comedy treestar Jan 2014 #39
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