It is not about the swimsuit issue it is about basic respect for women

[BainsBane]

440. You did, in the thread to which I responded this morning

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and Bonobo and Quinnox did so above. You couldn't wait to point out that it was all her fault, that is was all due to women and that the men who have carefully stoked the fires of hostility against women on this site are entirely without blame. It feeds right into Blue Harmony's thread that women are at fault for objectification because some of us wear make-up and heels. The menz used her as cover to insist that none of you had anything to do with the endless threads clearly posted to mark territory and make clear women who don't defer to men aren't welcome. Jeff made perfectly clear, as have others, that those threads were posted with the deliberate intention of pissing off feminists. They were intended hostilely and they were received hostilely. Only the game backfired. It exposed hundreds of DUers to the misogyny that is common place here and they have said enough, as hundreds of recommendations for threads such as this one, Bjorn's thread in HOF that has over 180 recs, and Warren Stupidity's thread shows. The charade that only a few fringe feminists object to the misogynist bullshit has been exposed for the lie it is. The game backfired.

If I had so-called "friends" who choose to defend themselves by saying "it's not us; it's her," I would certainly consider that being thrown under the bus. Fortunately, I choose my associations more wisely.