This person has been at it for a long time here and so many people wish he would just go away.

You are so right.

I too am sick of a male POV dominating every single post. There’s a lot of dope female voices here that are being drown out. You’re being defensive about a space that doesn’t belong to you, no one has been rude that I have seen. Don’t shit on people who are thoughtfully expressing their feelings. Your need to comment…

“The president and the entire administration take domestic violence very seriously, and believe all allegations need to be investigated thoroughly.”

Women stay in abusive relationships due to the cognitive dissonance caused by traumatic bonding. It’s not really fair to place it on patriarchal conditioning, it demeans the strong women and not so strong women we are trying to defend.

In the way women are socially conditioned, there is often an emphasis on remaining and enduring when relationships are difficult. Commitment and self-sacrifice are often something women are expected to have in relationships more than men. This conditioning often causes the line of thought that a ‘strong’ women should…

Tired, I feel like I’m re-living your ordeal, and I would bet that MANY women here are too. I understand your fear and your choice to adopt a “burner.” I have too. Some privileged commenters use this against us, because they believe that their “ungrey” status elevates their opinion and confirms their own prejudices.…

Hear, hear. I’m kinda tired of the first comment I always read, on a feminist blog mostly for women, is written by a dude, usually this particular dude. And his response indicates he seems tone deaf as to why that in and of itself is problematic.

I’ve intentionally stayed out of commenting on this thread out of fear of... I don’t know, repercussions. It’s hard to tell how well known I am on this site, so I didn’t much feel like risking everything given how important this community is to me. That said, I really and truly hope you listen to what PuddingPants…

Copying this comment I made to Mortal Dictata to myself because I am not a “troll” but I’m trying to prevent my comment being dismissed just because I disagree:

I understand that it’s hard to learn from criticism and you really did get piled on last night, but please try. Please?

Actually the trick is to be fat. True story.

Chrissy is golden on twitter.

By encourage I just meant “think on,” not “you must justify this to me”!

I’m sorry that it’s lost on you. Genuinely.

He dismissed someone who was insulting him after he was fairly insulting himself. :/ Regarding the rest of your comment, I don’t think there’s anything new I can tell you, other than to note that while the original initiation of this topic was perhaps not well-executed, there are some well-made points above internet…

In fairness, I generally don’t interact with Mortal, because we have some fairly significant disagreements on how he reports UK politics. Not that he does report them at all - specifically, I’m bothered at how he regards certain aspects of the topic, including Brexit, Scotland, Corbyn, and other interestingly…

No, but it did mean you dismissed what was otherwise a rather good comment that, in fairness, was based on you bringing up a hot topic looking for trouble. You talk a lot of - for lack of a bettter word - kind of insulting shit on this forum. That’s okay! We’re full of hot takes an jibes here. But I would hope that…

This is a great response, and because it’s coming from a guy, I hope MD listens. Because he’s clearly not listening to the women who have been asking for a little room to breathe.

I don’t agree with your analysis on this (which is fine, just giving my perspective), but I completely hate the dismiss button