I just went back and looked at that thread again, and I cannot believe that he was allowed to continue in that way. The only mod note in the entire convo asked *everyone* to calm down. WTF?
So what if his girlfriend has been mindwashed by the medical system she's heavily invested in? He's in a feminist space and the vast majority of feminists who chose to speak to that issue in that space are deeply concerned about the implications of the mindset behind the guidelines and the potential consequences to women. And he thinks it's his right to assure everyone that they're over-reacting and the patriarchal medical institution would never really want to hurt us.
Fuck.
Hope your mood improves in some fashion. The world is not made up entirely of complacent misogynistic morons, although it does often seem that way.
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Date: 2006-05-18 09:40 pm (UTC)So what if his girlfriend has been mindwashed by the medical system she's heavily invested in? He's in a feminist space and the vast majority of feminists who chose to speak to that issue in that space are deeply concerned about the implications of the mindset behind the guidelines and the potential consequences to women. And he thinks it's his right to assure everyone that they're over-reacting and the patriarchal medical institution would never really want to hurt us.
Fuck.
Hope your mood improves in some fashion. The world is not made up entirely of complacent misogynistic morons, although it does often seem that way.