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Comment author: [deleted] 04 December 2012 12:03:27PM 7 points [-]

I think that “feminism” is a very counter-intuitive label for that memeplex (imagine anti-racism was called “blackism”), and that that might have contributed to people misunderstanding what (‘sane’) feminists are about. (In Italian it's even worse -- sexism is usually called maschilismo, so people assume femminismo is reverse sexism, and even use it as a slur against people they perceive to be misandrist, and MRAs call themselves anti-femministi.)

As a sane feminist, I was happy to discover sane MRA type sites such as ozy's No Seriously, What About teh Menz?, and the over-arching The Good Men Project.

Me too. I'm pleasantly surprised to find out that there are people who can discuss certain issues with extremely low levels of mind-killing, which made me change my mind about what I wrote earlier. (Well, this too.)

Comment author: wedrifid 19 December 2012 11:44:55AM 1 point [-]

nd that that might have contributed to people misunderstanding what (‘sane’) feminists are about.

That and sane people in general speaking less hysterically and drawing less attention than insane people.

Comment author: ikrase 19 December 2012 07:01:06AM 1 point [-]

Yeah. That place just went to hell (although it seems like everybody I consider an ally is Not Daring To Urge Constraint).

Comment author: [deleted] 19 December 2012 11:30:07AM 1 point [-]

although it seems like everybody I consider an ally is Not Daring To Urge Constraint

Thanks. I knew I had read a post by EY describing exactly that failure mode, but couldn't remember which it was.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2012 04:56:53PM 1 point [-]

I spoke too soon. I've been seeing plenty of mind-killed people on the GMP lately.