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Re: Behaviour on the Speculation board: women not welcome?
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nanobrain
on 23/11/2013, 01:40:26 UTC

The vast majority of posters here are male. In my experience around half of them are decent people, a quarter are trolls and the remainder are newbies or egomaniacs.

That being the case, I'd say it's normal to see strong male orientated behaviour here. Is some of it distasteful, yes but are you saying that this is purely gender related?

Mainly it is...I don't see "double bottom" being represented by a man's ass or even a normal woman's ass...its always a young, tanned, perfectly formed ass....its an excuse for a bit of soft-porn for the lads.

You're saying a group of women would behave differently?
 
Of course, they'd behave differently....they may not behave better but I imagine you'd get pretty sick of seeing pictures of male bottoms. And most mature, intelligent women would find endless images of George Clooney a bit tiresome too.

If so, isn't what you're saying inherently sexist?
 

Not sure if you're trolling by this point but this is a straw man....I won't waste time burning it down.

What you're saying is females are better people which I disagree with. I think you can be good or bad and be male or female. I don't feel women have the monopoly on sensible discourse.
 

Veering all over the road now and trying to put words in my mouth.

Think Values > Attitudes > Behaviour.

P.S. I've personally not seem much in the way of sexism at all (other than overt sexist posts which I assume to be jokes), if anything, this is one of the most sexist posts I've seen simply because there's no irony or humour here. You're pretty serious in your belief that female behaviour is better behaviour.

See the above points and posts but I'll draw attention to your statement about 'jokes'.  Interesting isn't it that you automatically assume sexist behaviour is a joke, while pointing out that this behaviour can be harmful is sexist.  I guess nigger jokes are just harmless fun too?

You are clearly talking from a dominant social position - spend your life being the butt of 'jokes' and see how quickly they wear thin.