Hey DU: My wife says you aren't real feminists

[Eyes of the World]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by obamanut2012 (a host of the Feminists group).

I've been telling her about the tone of DU lately, and she says the so-called feminists here are just a bunch of over-privelaged crybabies who have no perspective. Of course she's from Uruguay, so she has seen discrimination and human trafficking much closer up. When I met her I thought I was cynical, but she calls me a naive idiot when it comes to these matters.

According to her, the Witches don't tolerate the anti-egalitarian sentiment espoused here at DU.

Any Witches care to comment?

As for me, I'm done.

This is my second time around DU. I spent 8 good years here on DU but gotkicked off because I made one offhand remark in a thread after a bad day. Nobody wanted to know why I would suddenly say something bad like I did the one time I did it, they just kicked me off. It hurt.

Eventually I came back with a new username. I have been treated like shit since day 1. It can't be a coincidence. DU and me don't go together anymore. It's sad because I spent so many years telling people that DU was the most informative website on the internet. I don't know if anywhere else is more informative. But the tone of this place is terminal. I will fight for you forever, I just can't communicate with you in your Poliitical Correctness language. I'm tired of being called a troll.

So goodbye.

Hurry and leave your insulting goodbyes before the thread is locked and I am banned forever.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I'm sorry

You and your wife have so much anger in your hearts. I hope you find peace.

[stevenleser]

2. Alerted. Bye nt

[libodem]

3. Stick around a while longer

We have a very vocal minority. I have grown up believing I was a feminist but was challenged immediately by Iverglas she thought not. She seemed to have of supporters who hung on her every dictum. He /she is gone now.
Her fan club remains. She left some haters for me. They all hate me for my way of thinking. I had three son's who must have marked my brain with testosterone. I can't blame men for everything. I think it may be an intergenerational problem. I will be 57 on Thursday. Living through the 60's and 70's changes your perspective.
My son's have said the same things to me about DU, your wife has said to you ie 'why do you want to hang out with people like that?'

Second wave stated in the 60's we wanted what we saw as the male privileges for ourselves and to do that we acted like men. The guy's grew long hair and got a man purse, they acted more feminine. How we got here has a history it did not happen in a vacuum.We marched against Viet Nam, we crusaded for black power, the homosexuals had Stonewall riots and that beget the gay parades, I followed what Sonja Johnson had to say even though I was a young Mormon mom. I read Now magazine. I believed in civil rights for everyone. We were very activist marchers and even rioted in the 60s.
Now that many of those groups are mainstream the focus seems to have switched to protection and image maintenance. even though I took sociology and read The Boys of Boise, the past is not a welcome subject. Everyone is Modern Family, and no scandalous park bathroom history may be alluded to, everyone arrived where we are at in a celestial limousine from heaven. everyone is so sure you are 'slurring' them.

[obamanut2012]

4. This was a repeat RW disruptor who has been PRRed

After numerous sexist and misogynistic posts, including the OP you are responding to. I hope you do understand how appalling the OP is.

Plus, do not make negative comments in FG about other DU feminists. Please take that to Meta, as it has no place here. Thank you.

I am locking this thread.


Obamanut2012
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