Rumination on misogyny.

[hfojvt]

38. "you can be a misogynist and not be a bad person"

That may not be agreed to by everybody. That's not how I view things.

To be is to do, or to do is to be.

Or not.

It depends on if one is describing behavior or attaching a label.

The difference between telling somebody "what you just did is NOT nice" versus "you are an a$$hole". I guess you could say that "TO DO something not nice is TO BE an a$$hole" at least for a moment. But, like you said, a real a$$hole is shown not by just one statement or one act, but by persistence, a long train of abuses and usurpations.

But persisting in what? Persisting in disagreeing with somebody when called on it?

Listing "key issues for femininsts" is a little bit different than "listing positions that are considered sexist or misogynist".

And as for people who do not like me, well, true story, I had a post hidden some eleven days ago. It was a 4-3 vote. I considered the post I had replied to, to be very hateful, and yet my post was the one hidden. One juror said, of my post, "this post is not hide-worthy, but because it's hfojvt I am voting to hide it". Another chimed in with "tick tock, I cannot wait until he gets booted".

Just because I am paranoid does not mean they are not out to get me.

There simply are many here who subscribe to the view that there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who agree with me, and a$$holes. And they are not shy about saying it when you disagree with them.