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In reply to the discussion: Why Women Aren't Crazy [View all]
 

iverglas

(38,549 posts)
2. snork
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 12:32 PM
Jan 2012

Why, surely not here in this group?

Interestingly, maybe the fact that it is not used exclusively against women in cyberspace helps to make clear what the intent is. This kind of crap is endemic in cyberspace, as part and parcel of the common refusal to engage, and the choice to misrepresent instead. The odd man might find it instructive to experience what women deal with day in, day out.

You don't experience it personally in real life, sb, but you certainly experience it as a member of the group -- every time a woman politician is dismissed with words that ascribe an emotional rather than rational basis to her words, for instance.

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