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Showing Original Post only (View all)Can we PLEASE have a "gender forum" where all gender-based threads can go die? [View all]
Rules could look something like this:
**** If a gender is called out in the OP, but has no pertinence to the topic, it belongs in the gender forum.
**** If the OP is gratuitously sexy for no reason other than to be sexy, it belongs in the gender forum.
Threads about real political topics where gender is a factor, including rape, abortion, LGBT threads, etc., would not belong in the gender forum. Political satire can also be excluded. But the gratuitous stuff...get rid of it.
Any other rules?
I'm just so sick of the gender wars going on right now in GD. It diminishes DU. I honestly think some kind of rules need to be established.
Am I alone in this wish?
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Can we PLEASE have a "gender forum" where all gender-based threads can go die? [View all]
FourScore
Feb 2014
OP
Why HoF, the Men's Group already has the gratuitous sexy thread. The SI cover thread could easily
seaglass
Feb 2014
#14
It's a no shit because your comment had nothing to do with what I posted and you didn't
seaglass
Feb 2014
#39
I'm not sure why you keep saying these disjointed off-topic things to me but OK.
seaglass
Feb 2014
#41
I'm not assuming anything. My comment was based on what exists. The Men's Group already
seaglass
Feb 2014
#88
No shit. And here is a sub thread with only intent to diss and insult dyers, YET
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#120
except i did not start a subthread of insulting duers. you and others did. nt
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#130
So, you just throw out a jab at hof for no particular reason? Seems like you are the problem
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#123
Thing is, rules isolating certain topics and prohibiting them in GD are routinely ignored.
Lizzie Poppet
Feb 2014
#4
If you have an issue, why did you stand by without saying anything when lumberjack started
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#124
As other have advised: liberal use of the trash can function during these outbreaks.
LiberalAndProud
Feb 2014
#15
I envision a DU where each poster has their own forum to deal with the issues
el_bryanto
Feb 2014
#22
Any poster who thinks that all gender related posts should be sent to the dungeon is a candidate. n/
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#91
It's the dismissiveness that's telling. And people need to be called on it, no argument from me.
nomorenomore08
Feb 2014
#156
Want to cause GD to meltdown into a lava hot puddle of outrage? Post a magazine with 3 women in
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2014
#109
I would gladly offer this thread as the first to go in the "gender forum". n/t
FourScore
Feb 2014
#43
K&R for the interesting mix of great humor and people going right off the rails,
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2014
#65
It would be nice, and K&R, but, alas, too many people are vested in acting like children
TransitJohn
Feb 2014
#82
Are you saying that when women want to discuss gender related issues they're acting like children?
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#92
First you agreed that there should be a separate forum where all OP's related to gender issues
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#158
Why is it "acting like children" for women to question why a T & A photo lands on the front page
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#160
No, but MRA responses to feminists are often quite childish. Strawmen, ad hominems, etc. etc.
nomorenomore08
Feb 2014
#157
Harpies? Ya perusing this thread and reading the insults to us women... We are so friggin
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#126
Oh right. Because we passed the Equal Rights Amendment decades ago and women are fully equal
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#90
why did you even start this thread. all day it has died down. why would you start this thread
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#131
fourscore. thank you. thank you for taking the time to explain to me where you are coming from
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#146
this: if women dare to fight back, they are the ones to blame. and this:
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#148