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In reply to the discussion: It is not about the swimsuit issue it is about basic respect for women [View all]theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I can repeat it for you. Seemed pretty straightforward to me. Don't care if you liked it or not. I'm not here to make pals or to play here as if this is DUMatch.com. I'm here to discuss politics and current events. I didn't write the rules for this forum. So whether a person pens a homage to Twinkies or waxes poetic over an SI cover, they dilute the purpose of this particular forum and make a mockery of it. Further, such threads show little respect for people who make an effort to sustain GD as a place for serious discourse.
Apart from that, the level of disrespect towards women that I've seen on these threads is appalling. I speak not as someone who has truly participated in the objectification threads but who has read most of them, nonetheless. If there are men and women here who cannot embrace feminism as an intrinsic part of a progressive perspective or, at the very least, cannot support the Democratic platform as it pertains to women, you'll forgive me if I fail to sympathize when you're called out for acting like adolescent twits. If you take the rules for GD at face value, then the posting of the SI cover could have no other purpose than to incite a political response. Well, when you set a match to the fire, don't expect me to hand you a fire extinguisher. There's a reason they call threads like the SI cover, flamebait.