Feminists

What happend is, you have some p[eople that cannot distinguish between censorship and reprimanding. We have all heard the line about "you do not have the right to yell fire in a crowded theater", reprimanding is when you throw whoever did that out of the theater. You do have the right to say something offensive, but you are expected to be able to deal with whatever you summon up.

Do we want to make it impossible to offend?, If we do, we have it easy for people to say "I'm offended" Feminists can attest that some male types are very good at playing that game, as are a few of the Palinesque ladies. However, that does not mean we cannot, and should not, have ESTABLISHED GUIDELINES on what is UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR.

Now, I do not know what thread caused all this, but I could guess how it went. If Skinner had said, for example "There will be no jokes about Rape!" then whoever said this could be have taken down. And if some Ron Paul libertarian had said "what, I can't joke about Rush Limbaugh getting (censored) in prison!) we could have said "sorry, think of some other thing to say, if you can''t think of something that does not involve rape, than get a wits transplant." We can all think of nasty, colorful things to say about Rush Limbaugh, that need not involve that.

Of course, that woudl require care and thought, and frankly, we need to see if the mods are willing to do this, and if we would offer help. Granted, we do not want this site to become a place where no one can dare say "sparkly unicorn poop" without being tombstoned, however, do we really need to split hairs on why making fun of rape is a bad idea?

To any ladies, no offense meant. This was not an attempt to "mansplain" only make a point about common sense, which knows no gender.