UP's Blind Spot for Sexism and Misogyny

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@anon38180840

I won’t post about it here anymore except to say that this is what we always do, the new thread almost always gets less traffic, and we essentially let most people avoid thinking about the problem.

It’s the Internet forum version of moving protesters out of a street they’re blocking so that nobody has to be inconvenienced. We’re like 99% men, a large percentage don’t care about it, and we’re never going to fix this problem if we just excise the posts to a containment thread that 75% of the forum then ignores.

I’ll leave it out of this thread for now, but I think we should all think about that.

None of that is a shot at goofy, who’s just doing the normal thing a mod is supposed to do, nor am I trying to equate sexist posts here with cops killing black people.

Hopefully this post stays put.

Copied from the COVID thread after a lot of the misogyny posts were moved over here. And I agree with a lot of it.

But turning an important issue into a back-and-forth insult and challenge fest is only going to increase that 75% number that ignore this thread.