Do any of the rest of you feel like this?

[Bonobo]

Speaking for myself, I am MUCH MORE open-minded and feminist issue oriented in my real life than I tend to portray myself/be portrayed as on DU.

When I see something posted, in GD for example, about issues of sexism (such as the current Seth McFarlane thing), I hesitate to enter and be vocal. I would normally, in real life, be critical of McFarlane's behavior but on DU, because of the way I feel I am viewed and because of the way I feel painted into a corner, I hesitate.

I almost feel like my image has been so hardened and I have been shoehorned into a certain category that if I WERE to make a anti-sexism statement, I would be jumped on and accused of being a hypocrite.

Does anyone else feel painted into a corner in this way? Does anyone else feel that their DU "identity" is not an accurate portrayal?

Does anyone else here feel that certain vocal posters on DU have made you feel pigeonholed into an identity that is not you and that you don't know how to get out because there is a tendency to make people into caricatures of what they are in order to provide "foils" for others?

Even writing this, I feel I can "hear" the sighs of certain people as they think how to attack me, or search my past for ammunition. I know who I am and am comfortable as is my extremely feminist daughter who thinks I am very open-minded, but I don't think my DU persona is accurate.