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25. why not use one of the other four options?

If a thread, or post, offends you, there are four basic options

1. ignore it, don't click on it or read it
2. even beyond that, put the person who keeps posting those types of things on ignore
3. alert on it, if the community agrees with you, it will be hidden.
4. respond to it, explaining, perhaps for the 10 millionth time why it is offensive. This does not even have to be a lot of work, since a standard "these types of posts are offensive" essay could be kept in a journal for handy reference. like so http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2521283


This seems to be more wanting to control others. Not only "I don't want to see those types of posts (or threads)" but "I don't want anybody else to see them either".

or, perhaps, "I don't want to belong to a community which finds these things acceptable".

So either change the community or find a different community.

Some people seem to think that "posting OPs about radical feminist issues or perspectives" is flame bait and starts gender wars and they wish they belonged to a community where that didn't happen.

Again, trying to control other people.

What if, instead, we belonged to a sort of big tent community where people with somewhat radically different ideas and perspectives could still discuss things in a reasonable fashion and teach and learn from each other? Instead of wanting to box people with a label "the disgusting misogynists" and "the loony feminists".

Oh, you are one of THEM.

I know.

What a concept.