Reply #149: There is NO universal double standard here . If a male poster here makes a

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gender-biased remark, he may or may not get negative feedback. For instance, posters here DAILY equate having the courage of one's convinctions with having testicles. Most people here don't even bother to comment on posts like that and you get nowhere if you alert on that--that's how common and unremarkable it is here. Sometimes even I let those go simply because it just happens too dang often and so few here even comment.

When I start seeing you object to that very common kind of remark, I'll be impressed, as opposed to your outrage at a comment about genital mutilation as to your own gender. The former would show an desire for equality, the latter is merely protective of your own group and therefore not terribly impressive.

On other, less common remarks, like genital mutilation, for both genders, it's exactly the same. Someone makes a jackass comment and several people express outrage, JUST AS YOU AND OTHERS DID ON THIS THREAD. (There are about 7 or 8 posts on this thread objeting.) And if someone alerts, a mod deletes, JUST AS OCCURRED ON THIS THREAD. No double standard.

Claiming that men get treated worse ignores reality and thus displays the very same victim mentality about which you and your colleagues on this thread have been whining. So, don't waste your time looking for the mote in women's eyes because the beam in your own seems to prevent you from seeing very well.

Meanwhile, this revolting comment from your post...


"I am not talking about you as I agree with your above post but sometimes I feel like I am talking to children in here."


The very definition of a partriarchal attitude is perceiving women as children. At least you're fit the defintion of a classic. Not an especially desirable classic, of course, but a classic nonetheless.


"The myopic stupidity, the cognitive dissonance and victim based justifications are staggering in DU at times."

Yup. You said it. But, it is just that much more ridiculous when it is a male playing the victim, and while being totally blind to how utterly ironic his biased comments are.