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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]BainsBane
(53,029 posts)I wonder why? Perhaps it has something to do with some going around telling feminists that everything they care about isn't real, that they aren't "real women." Perhaps it has to do with someone claiming that corporations planted women and people of color in the Democratic Party to divert it from its true mission. Perhaps it has to do with the fact some people see most of humanity as beneath them, as less than real, and whose lives are worth less. Perhaps it has to do with some insisting that every issue related to women's rights--whether language, rape, domestic violence, or reproductive rights--isn't important.
You claim to be too busy to care about issues related to misogyny in this country and care about "real women" overseas, yet you have managed to spend many hours in this thread on an issue you claim isn't real. You suggest there is something other than real about concerns over language on the internet, yet you devote a good portion of your time on that same internet. You aren't in Syria or Iraq helping women. You post online, on the very internet you insist is less than real.
You have demonstrated you have plenty of time for this discussion. You simply choose to spend it telling members of this site that they are less than "real," than their concerns don't matter because you and you alone are fit to determine what has value. You focus on Doctor Oz. I care about domestic violence, rape, and human trafficking, but my issues aren't real. What is real is to pay homage to great men--be they accused rapists fleeing justice or Republican charlatans promoting quack diet cures. They are who really matters. The lives of the rest of us, insignificant, not "real."