Hey women

[RainDog]

659. I don't hate that group

But the reality is that there is a group here whose view of reality is either distorted or they are messing with people here. Like I said, it ultimately becomes tiresome to me to go into it - but, as I also said, I'm on the side of reality-based progressives.

There's no such thing as porn addiction, for instance. Yet this issue is constantly discussed here, even when the only studies that support such an opinion are all from right wing religious minds and lack scholarly merit. There are more than a few instances in which right wing religious ideology and feminism are indistinguishable on this board.

Again, multiple examples of this in action here.

When someone posts a right wing religious video here to laugh at it - people from that group thought that was an excellent opportunity to talk about rape and about not caring about suffering in the world. It was, once again, another wtf moment. The thread was alerted on - yet any other thread here that made fun of the religious fundamentalist mindset would never find objection on DU.

I don't think everyone saying such things are religious fundamentalists, necessarily, but when argument after argument parrots religious fundamentalism, you're going to have a problem with a lot of liberals.

Here people are equating evo psyche with primatology and claiming science is trying to make itself a religion. Where else do we ever hear people talk about science elevating itself to a religion? Among religious fundamentalists in their objections to science they don't like.

And, again, this thread is full of misrepresentations about what was said, and, even when it's pointed out more than once that the insults perceived were not the content of a post - the problem then becomes people misunderstanding, not those who are making claims about things that were said that were no where within the post that's referenced.

As a female, it bothers me to see this because, in my view of the world, religious fundamentalism is one of the worst things about this nation. To hear arguments about feminism align with religious fundamentalism just doesn't make sense to me as a person who thinks choice is something all adults have a right to, not just some.

and that's what's so bothersome about all of this - this insistence on things being one way - without taking the pulse of the community to see how others feel about it, and then agreeing to participate in the community on that basis. I say this, again, without knowing how any such poll would come out - but I say it because I'm willing to abide by the community standard.