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BullDog · 07-08-2010, 07:37 PM

I read about 7 pages of the comments at Huffington. I think I should reward myself with a cookie for getting that far. A lot of it is just ridiculous nonsense, but I do see lots of misogyny, anti-lesbian and transphobic comments made- and it's all mixed and mashed together, which is of course how life is. Nobody makes little boxes around what is misogyny, homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia etc and most people don't know the differences between all of them.

I do agree with Heart- something like this happens and all of sudden it's- women can be just as bad as men. Yes an individual woman can be, but if you are looking at from a broader perspective the overwhelming majority of violent and sexual crimes are perpetuated by straight males. However, when a straight male commits a crime no one is scrutinizing his gender or sexuality.

I also think that all these ugly types of comments do come from the stereotypes people already have in their heads about women, lesbians and transpeople. Otherwise they wouldn't have these ugly things to say in the first place. That's why I think we have to be vigilant about not perpetuating stereotypes (even in more benign forms) in our queer communities.

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BullDog Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Dominant Stone Butch Daddy Preferred Pronoun?: She Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: In A Healing Place Posts: 5,371 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,160 Thanked 22,666 Times in 4,464 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	I read about 7 pages of the comments at Huffington. I think I should reward myself with a cookie for getting that far. A lot of it is just ridiculous nonsense, but I do see lots of misogyny, anti-lesbian and transphobic comments made- and it's all mixed and mashed together, which is of course how life is. Nobody makes little boxes around what is misogyny, homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia etc and most people don't know the differences between all of them. I do agree with Heart- something like this happens and all of sudden it's- women can be just as bad as men. Yes an individual woman can be, but if you are looking at from a broader perspective the overwhelming majority of violent and sexual crimes are perpetuated by straight males. However, when a straight male commits a crime no one is scrutinizing his gender or sexuality. I also think that all these ugly types of comments do come from the stereotypes people already have in their heads about women, lesbians and transpeople. Otherwise they wouldn't have these ugly things to say in the first place. That's why I think we have to be vigilant about not perpetuating stereotypes (even in more benign forms) in our queer communities.