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(35,961 posts)Because I'm just not getting how that works. The way I read it, the post said that Riff is just like a dog looking for pats from its owner where its loyalty to its owner is unconditional and unthinking. As a woman and a feminist saying that to another woman just because she doesn't agree with someone else is making out that she doesn't have the intelligence to make her own decisions and choices in her life is offensive. That's the sort of crap misogynists come out with...
If I'm mistaken and there's some other way of reading that post, I'd like to know what it was, because I've been pretty disgusted with the way a few people who take offence at much less said to them have refused to say that the post was over the line and wrong. Which has made me realise that for some it's not about being opposed to sexism against women, just being opposed to sexism against women they see eye to eye with. And it was another example of a jury failing, a topic I know some have been very loud about lately...