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In reply to the discussion: It is not about the swimsuit issue it is about basic respect for women [View all]BainsBane
(53,012 posts)That comment was months before she posted the SI thread, and you don't even have that right. There is a whole thread on it in the Men's group. Did you not check its posting date?
Certain members have expressed outrage that juries, on rare occasion, hide a post insulting women as b.....es (literally female dogs) freely, while one member couldn't let an opportunity pass by to use the c....t word.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1114&pid=12924
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1114&pid=12936
As for the thread being posted by a woman, that is irrelevant. The members of this site most hostile to feminists, most but not all of which are male, have been the ones insistent that they simply do not care in the slightest that most women and indeed the majority of DUers find those kinds of posts inappropriate on this site. The person who posted the Kate Upton thread was male, as have been those who have posted threads insisting objectification "will always exist" or is the fault of women rather than men, and dozens of other similar threads doubling down on the offense.
I will also note that one female member of the site who goes to the mat to defend the SI thread insisted that those of us who object to things like that can't possibly be women and that we should be required to prove our sex. Evidently that person assumes only a male member could care about equal rights and then women by nature understand that they should remain deferential to men at all times.
I care far less about the gender of a member than what he or she stands for. It someone aligns themselves with those hostile to women's rights, that is the salient issue, not their sex.
Clearly some look for female accomplices to justify their ill treatment of women, just as the GOP looks to people like Clarence Thomas and Alan West to justify racism.
One of the ugliest aspects of misogyny is that women internalize it. All of us do to some extent or another, but some never become aware of it and go about putting down other women in order to seek male approval.