History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: My first hidden post ever and it was for being misogynistic and sexist. [View all]Riftaxe
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Shall we start this with that an outsider would have no clue as to who you are and who the "offender" is?
I can understand why you care not a whit about the claim about PMS'ing that i suspect is what got the post we are talking about hidden. Which in this case i suspect would require one to be a bit familiar with the more reoccurring folks around DU.
There is no opportunity for a poster to clarify things for a jury, it would be nice although cumbersome, and on a discussion board I think we can agree that conversation is a pale imitation of the real thing. Outside of knowledge gleamed from being familiar with the poster the juror has to judge on what is being presented.
I think the important thing to remember is that conversations here do not really flow per se, we are asking jurors to judge various snapshots of the conversation, to do otherwise I do not believe would be feasible.
It is a limitation of the media, I suspect.
Given that I think (for what it's worth) that the decisions went down this way
juror #1 Offensive! Way out of bounds!
juror #2 Offensive! Way out of bounds!
juror #3 Offensive !Way out of bounds!
juror #4 I am familiar with the folks it is just kidding around.
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That is just what i suspect, i will never know, neither will anyone else. It would be a waste of time to speculate differently for me, with absence of evidence.
In the end, I am not the one looking for scorpions under my blanket, but for me "This horse is dead Jim!!"