Reply #173: ahh [View All]

I think I know what you are trying to say. Our culture, and this message board as a snapshot of it, is infinitely more likely to ridicule female characteristics than male ones. It's not fair and it's not nice. On the other hand, women constitute approximately 51% of the voting public right now, so if that affected them that much, we should have seen some very major changes right now, no? One possibility is that women treat all these prejudices and stereotypes against women as a silly inconvenience rather than a major threat to their well being. Also, gender is only a part of your identity. If you identify yourself primarily though how many money-making abilities do you have, how do you comply with the accepted beauty standard, how well can you articulate yourself, if you think about yourself as a part of some other group (teacher, soldier, manager, party person, family member) first, and your gender comes second to all that, then why should you terribly care if you are facing more discrimination in certain situations because of your gender?

But yes, I am getting way off topic here. The situation is hostile to those women (or men who know such women) who are hurt by jokes about female's anatomy on this site. The sad part is that its all about numbers. So you publically complaining about this shit definitely helps. Grassroot effort baby !!! The question is do you have much grassroot left?

And like I said before, it's not about some 'environment'. Anybody can walk away from a stupid ass topic that disturbs them on a message board that they don't have to read to make a living. What we are talking about here is harrassment at work, where you are captive and left at the mercy of your supervisor, and it's always a good thing to see women and men fight for their right to be treated fairly at work.