YippySkippy wrote:
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I dunno, I just try to understand people and where they're coming from. Our world's aren't as big as most NTs so our experiences in almost everything are severely limited which can lend itself to resentment and making these broad stroke arguments and generalizations to compensate. I would venture to say tho that most people that make these comments probably would change their tune if their personal experience changed for the better, are they truly hateful or are they just languishing out of frustration?
I think L&D is kind of like another Haven since our primary issue socializing and relationships so obviously that's going to be the most volatile negative part of the site unfortunately. I wish things were better for us all.
It's one thing to understand the cause of a behavior, and another to allow that to be an excuse for that behavior.
We shouldn't say, "X has an unhappy love life, so he should be allowed to say hurtful things to/about women." Women should not have to be victims of someone else's dissatisfaction with life.
Sure and I think a lot of threads in L&D are let go way too long, especially once stuff gets beyond like page 5 its usually the result of some sort of argument or fight that has a occurred 10,000 times already. 20+ pages? Start running the other direction. Understanding why doesn't mean you should tolerate mistreatment but I don't think it the mods should be too heavy handed either, it's just something they gotta judge on a case by case basis. Can't we all just get along?

I do think it is important to try to not go looking for things to be offended by either if it really bothers you tho, when you get into that mindset you can start seeing slights and insults in places there aren't.