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In reply to the discussion: Should women wear make-up? [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)For the record, it wasn't so much an attack, as a simple acknowledgement of what invariably happens to EVERY unmoderated internet forum. It's like a beach. Flotsam invariably washes up on a beach - junk, garbage, driftwood, dead fish, that sort of thing. it's just the nature of a beach. If beachgoers keep it clean however, it stays a nice beach and everyone enjoys it. On the other hand if the flotsam washes up too thickly or if, for whatever reason the beachgoers can't clear it up, it just... collects. As more and more shit piles up on the beach, fewer and fewer people go there, until all that's on the beach is the garbage.
Personally, I figure that if a broad swath of people from several walks of life are all saying "yeah, this place feels hostile to me," and it all keeps pointing back at the same clump of people, maybe there's a fucking problem worth acknowledging.