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In reply to the discussion: DU should be collectively ashamed that people here deny that objectification of women is a problem. [View all]ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)...if they were actual discussions. They aren't. OP says if you don't think X, you ought be ashamed, because X is just a nasty FACT. What discussion follows from the conclusion? None that I'm aware of.
The OP did not discuss violent misogyny, it said, "We're progressives, so how dare you look at bikini models, for shaaaamme." As if "progressive" and "bikini model looking" were mutually exclusive. If you were looking for any answers here, the only one you can come away with definitively is that on DU, the signal-to-noise ratio of gender issues in GD is exceedingly low.
I grow weary of the meticulous attempts at justification of the size of one's persecution complex.
The reason I grow weary of it is because no one likes to have their issues trivialized. That people can puff up their own sense of entitlement in the matter while dismissing others is just the sort of hypocrisy that makes it impossible to solve any real problem that it entails.