History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: This will probably go poorly in gd but I needed to say this [View all]xulamaude
(847 posts)to twist and deflect and ask a bunch of related, but not exactly on topic (bring up stuff that was said in others threads, etc) questions to mostly drive the 'other' to exasperation OR draw the 'other' into their line of questioning for which they have ready rebuttals so as to let 'you' hang yourself with 'their' rope.
Also, links are never good enough - they're flawed studies or they're not funded by the right people or wtf ever. To paraphrase a recent exchange I saw: 'Just google it yourself.' 'Everybody knows you can't trust google! Give me the link!' (for the record I'm not talking about the 'google exchange' I had)
Whether they do it with purpose or they on auto-pilot because of privilege blinders or they really are just that incapable of intellectual understanding of a concept, the result is the same: most people shut up because the struggle is too draining.