trilonaut wrote:forgive my "unenlightened" perspective here, but majority/minority situations always skew things a hundred ways. ever tried having a debate with 8 opponents and 0 allies, in person? a majority can mock a minority all it wants. a minority mocking a majority would on a board be dubbed a troll.
You see, I was making another joke by turning your statement against you. I don't really think you lack elightenment, you just seem to lack a sense of irony.
There are plenty of minority opinions here, just do a search on "Israel", "Lebanon" or "Islam" and you will find many minority opinions that, while challenged, still exist and persist. All without the people voicing them being labeled a "troll". There are 1 or 2 exceptions to that of course, but then there always is.
trilonaut wrote:even in the outside world where women and men are virtually equal in number (51 to 49 percent, supposedly), women end up with the short end of the stick in a zillion aspects of life and i'm not going to go to great lengths to try to prove this to you bu if you want some basic stats on incomes i can find them. they printed some pretty drastic ones in the metro, not exactly some underground feminist zine. call that unenlightened, it's true.
You don't have to prove it to me, I already believe it. In fact, did you know it's even worse for women in other countries? So bad in some that they are considered "property"? That they are "circumsized" against their will as young girls so that they can't enjoy sex? That AIDS in some African countries have devestated female populations because men aren't expected to be monogamous nor use condoms? It's really quite disgusting.
The difference here of course is that A) This is an internet forum where gender is not readily apparant so comments aren't made with it in mind, B) no one here is (as far as I know) repressing women by keeping their income levels lower or stoning them for leaving their husbands and C) no one except Rachel is telling anyone here to shut the fuck up. She has made a judgement on people's intelligence or class and she has voiced that judgement. If it had stopped there I personally would not have commented. When she tells people to shut the fuck up and implies that I shouldn't be able to have an opinion based on my race and gender she crosses into satire territory for me.