RE: Theists on atheist forums
July 12, 2015 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2015 at 11:37 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(July 12, 2015 at 1:10 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(July 12, 2015 at 1:37 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ... treat the women on the forum with particularly less respect than the men...
That sort of thing is unfortunately common. It is unfortunate that there is no simple, easy fix to stop people from being prejudiced. Stupid bigots are stupid, so it is hard to get them to see reason.
To avoid it online for oneself, one can select a gender neutral name (or one associated with males) and never post a picture of oneself and never say that one is female. For men who want to observe the difference, they can join a forum with a feminine name and never say they are male, and see how they are treated over time.
Long ago, my wife communicated on computer message boards, and used a gender neutral name. She noticed very different treatment than what happened in real life, as she was treated just like an adult man on the message boards. She was an underage girl at the time. But she could hold her own in conversations with adult men, and they had no idea who they were communicating with.
I don't really like what you're implying here. I am not sexist for one, but a crazy paranoid person could treat me like one nonetheless, all I have to do is not agree with them and say why. I do the same thing with guys. Does that make me a misanthrope instead of a sexist person? No, it simply makes me human. I am not any meaner to girls than I am to boys, seeing how I am quite the effeminate man myself, and have no respect for any kind of machismo. In fact, it makes me gag wherever I see it. So yeah, it's pretty much bullshit to call me sexist, but whatever - deluded people never learn. I especially hate it when people get an idea in their heads and use it whenever anything resembling the stereotype at all comes up in one's arguing. -- But then again, I can't really do anything about that. People will always feel the need to make excuses for playing the victim card. Honestly, it's disgraceful and stupid. There are real cases of sexism out there.
It would seem one can't disagree with a woman anymore, or pay her a simple compliment, as youngsters tend to do, without being called a sexist. This is mere paranoia, and I'm glad I never fell for it.
There are a lot of small girls I know and respect. There are girls I met that are by far more intelligent than I am. I can't say the same thing about guys I know.
Cathy and Becca, here, are no such thing. I can't call them smart just because they would call me sexist otherwise. I tell it how I see it. If they appeared more intelligent to me than they do, I would have said it outright. They do not, though.
It's pathetic to milk respect like that. You will never earn my respect by appealing to my political correctness. All you will do is make me wonder about what type of person you really are- and what I'd come up with wouldn't be very flattering.
