If women have to get their tits out to make a point, so be it.

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500. It's not very difficult to understand

Very few words, it just requires basic reading comprehension. I happen to think death and murder is worse than tweeting a joke. Call me a radical that way. You don't think death threats count in this country because the government isn't carrying them out.

I see no difference between a misogynist Muslim man and American, non-Muslim man. Murder is murder, rape is rape. You are comfortable pointing to violence against women abroad because you see it as something far away and ignore the fact that 1 in 3 American women are abused by a partner. You focus on the foreign other because you seek to distance yourself and American culture from the reality of violence against women.

We can't control what happens in other countries. All we can do is control our own behavior. But that requires a commitment to human equality and a basic belief that women too have the right to be free from physical violence. But when 1 in 3 women are abused, that means their partners who are doing that abusing are everywhere: at pycon conferences, at most of our places of work, in our local communities, and even, according to statistical probability, on this very website.

I'm not proving anything to you. Those threats have been widely reported in the press. Articles, many linked to in threads you have participated in, have also talked about how difficult it is to investigate internet threats even when the people use their real names because of the nature of laws in this country. You've changed positions so many times. Now you're pretending they don't exist.