Women only: Regarding the use of the term 'girls' to describe women.

[Mc Mike]

411. All right. +1. Up to speed, now.

I thought I made him mad, and he left. That's what he said. But he's just mad at my thoughts, and is still buzzing around your post.

The khnet article is excellent, and he is seriously mis-repping it. Coming in here to see what women think is one thing, I'm guilty of curiously sticking my nose in, too. But he's been stomping up and down the thread ever since, when one o.p. from him would let him expend his energy and get his viewpoint out in a more positive way. Which is what you did.

I suppose I understand why you don't hit ignore, because he'd still be posting merrily away with gross misreps on the issues, and his incorrect perceptions would be the final word. So cocksure he's right, and has been wronged. If I ever, in the past, cross posted with a DU radical feminist, it was on tangential pro-Dem issues where we could attack 1% repug moves together, and I never knew I was sharing the space with a self-identified radical fem, most times I didn't know the poster's gender. He's looking like a 'men's rights' 'activist', who seeks out Women-specific issue posts, like a moth to a flame. Using the DU rules like a lawyer to fight his good fight, against the oppression that all men are suffering under. Har har. Harking back to dipshit Ken Kesey's 'medical matriarchy' conspiracy vs. the Jack Nicholson character. "We want the world series, Nurse Ratched. We voted on it."

DU could use a caucus option, and I pointed that out a long time ago. The site programmers know a lot more about computing and design than I do, so I have no idea how much difficult work they already put in, to make this site as it stands. But it seems like, if you and others are in agreement about something, you should be able to call a caucus to discuss it, without having to deal with someone, who clearly disagrees, hijacking the 'meeting of minds'. The result of the caucus could then be o posted as an open thread.

That way, nobody could use 'the rules' like a lawyer to thread stalk, just looking for an argument, and trying to derail other DUers thoughts, instead of building their own thought train.