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[polly7]

297. I'm a woman.

I've lived through terrors and assault, broken bones ... and yet I can't bring myself to blame all men for what some criminals decided to do to me. In fact, the men in my life have been more supportive and helpful in rebuilding my life than the women ........ isn't that weird. If you believe that 'life on a message board involving gender discussion' is comparable in any way to the horrors African Americans and LGBT and women in REAL LIFE have fought for and are fighting for, I suggest you get out and do something real to help victims of bigotry and oppression. Claiming a DU rape culture and trying your hardest to paint progressive people here (many women don't agree with your precious HOF) as woman-hating bigots doesn't do anything but give people something to b* about day after day. Some of us have spent a great deal of time with victims of DV, assault, rape .... and there really are actual cases of mysogyny and every other form of bigotry that harms and kills out there. Here - where a difference of opinion is branded as cause to divide a community claiming gender hatred and oppression??? - not so much.

But knock yourself out.