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In reply to the discussion: I refuse to be baited on gender issues [View all]Violet_Crumble
(36,408 posts)History? How does that work? If someone steals my carpark at work and I complain loudly and long about it, I can turn around and steal their carpark the next week and when they point out how hypocritical I've been, I can tell them it's *history* and to stop scolding? And for the record, disagreeing with you isn't scolding, so maybe you should put the tone argument on the backburner, coz like it's always used to try to shut us feminists up?
There's a quote type thing that comes to mind with yr brushing off what you used to complain about as history: 'Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it'. On that side of things, yr scoring 100%...
As for the bizarre insistence that someone posting an image as a reply is a Men's group tactic, I've been at DU a hell of a long time, and as long as I can remember DUers do it. Sometimes they're humorous, sometimes they're not. But I far prefer them to the occasional sighting of a DUer who's got a reputation for getting nasty suddenly going all Zen and posting 'inspirational' feel-good posts accompanied by images of cartoon love hearts and kittens and the sun rising over some boring beach. There's only one thing worse and that's this...