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by someone else and extrapolating from there. I had hidden that thread from the person, but decided to go see what was up. What was up was a bunch of women making assumptions not in evidence about others, judging them on this basis - and I guess if that's good enough as an argument for them, it works for me, too.
In the case of that particular person, her attacks based upon what I perceive as, honestly, an inability to separate her emotional response to an argument has rendered anything she might say worthless for me. Others, obviously, will disagree, and do. My way of dealing with such people and their relentless insults because they lack an argument worth noting is to ignore them, mostly.
But when they attack me, they will get back the same.
If they don't, they will get the same.
It's pretty simple, to me. It's funny how people, women and men, don't like to be attacked on this site, no matter what side of an issue. In the great big scheme of things, it's somewhat worse to be attacked as a supporter of rape than someone with low libido.
If you're not a woman, you may not know the way that women criticize other women to try to keep them in line...whether it's their mode of thinking, their actions, their presumptions about someone they know little to nothing about... It's typical old-skool anti-feminist behavior. The only response they understand is if you attack them back, apparently. What they give is what they get back, but, of course, it's all someone else's doing.
Fortunately, I am gaining more ability, over time, to simply see the arguments put forth as little more than emotional tantrums, many times, that some here substitute for valid discussion and reasoned positions. I've come to that position by seeing their responses to others, not myself, which helps me to gain some perspective.