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In reply to the discussion: Is this blog post intolerant of the transgendered? [View all]Shandris
(3,447 posts)I came in expecting to read a TERF screed (and I wasn't disappointed), only to find out way more than I ever wanted to about other posters and the amount of...of...I can't even think of a good word for it. Premeditation? Despicableness? I don't know. The kind of planned disruption of a board with obvious intentions to get other posters banned for no other reason than disagreeing with them, as if it were some kind of battle between good and evil and all that other type of poo that Shrubya announced leading up the Iraq War?
Sometimes it's very eye-opening to be shown some of the things we don't want to believe exist. If you had told me this was happening, I would have told myself you were a paranoid person and that no liberals would be doing this kind of thing. I mean, I've actually cried over this thread and what I was reading, and not because of the hate and invective-filled stupidity that is the link in the OP (as if it weren't bad enough on its own!).
I know I don't read here as regularly as I should, but that was an infobomb my entire life could have gone on happily without -- not that I'm upset anyone posted it. It needed to be done, in some sick perverse way. But it makes me nauseous to know that these types of people are out here planning this kind of thing. How DARE they try to control what I or anyone else am allowed to hear from people, and then claim themselves 'defenders' of women?!
I'll never understand the mindset. Maybe I'm too sheltered or something, I dunno.