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Why it gets so tiring pointing out sexist behavior on message boards
monique, whupass
[info]yduras

It's one of those things where if you say nothing, then you're complicit in the silence. And yet...

tits tits tits tits

You know, that's really obnoxious.

Who are you to tell me what I can say? You're trying to take away my freedom of speech!

So, in your world, 'freedom of speech' means that you can say any obnoxious thing you like, but nobody else can say they find it obnoxious?

LAlALALALAIcan'thearyou! HELP, HELP, I'M BEING OPPRESSED!

(No, this was no one incident in particular, just a pattern of them. Although I will say that in one of the recent examples, 'tits' was not the word in question)

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Is is worthwhile to explain to them that they do not, in fact, have freedom of speach on a message board?
I went through that recently on a board I host.

Nah. If they can't figure out criticism!=censorship, then getting a clear understanding of what freedom of speech really entails is probably a lost cause.

Wait, where did you tell him what to say? All you did was comment on what he said.

There are so many stupid people in the world, I swear, sometimes I just despair. It's amazing how many people literally don't get the logical concept of "Yes, I'm exercising my own free speech by disapproving of what you said with yours."

"I am not telling you what to say. I am telling you what a worthless little blob of pond scum you are for having said what you did."

I appreciate the dilemma....

[info]lightningrose

2008-07-17 04:56 am (UTC)

wanting to say *something* so that it is out there, even if the person in question obviously is not listening....

Re: I appreciate the dilemma....

[info]yduras

2008-07-17 12:50 pm (UTC)

It's one of those things that's hard to explain: "The fact that you have the right to be repugnant does not magically make you no longer repugnant..."