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Jess · 09-14-2010, 06:47 AM

Heart,
Thanks for this article. I must have missed it when you first posted it, but ran across it just now while perusing forums.

As ever, the discussion of how to combat misogyny while being respectful of all of the gender variants is definitely something I look at a lot.

It too often feels that being in support of one group becomes translated to mean you are anti another group. I don't understand that leap of thought. I think it covers just about every social issue we encounter, not just misogyny gender issues, but also including all human rights issues.

For me, I find it pretty easy to live and let live and have a great capacity for seeing all sides to different issues and unfortunately I think that is often misread as "phobia" in some various form. It's almost as if we ( as a society) demand someone "pick a side" when in reality, there really isn't a right or wrong to the issue. Just two sides of the same coin. If I only pick one side, I lose the value of the coin itself.

09-14-2010, 06:47 AM	#3
Jess Timed Out - Permanent How Do You Identify?: decidedly indifferent Preferred Pronoun?: other Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Patrick Springs, VA Posts: 2,812 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,247 Thanked 5,700 Times in 1,682 Posts Rep Power: 0	Heart, Thanks for this article. I must have missed it when you first posted it, but ran across it just now while perusing forums. As ever, the discussion of how to combat misogyny while being respectful of all of the gender variants is definitely something I look at a lot. It too often feels that being in support of one group becomes translated to mean you are anti another group. I don't understand that leap of thought. I think it covers just about every social issue we encounter, not just misogyny gender issues, but also including all human rights issues. For me, I find it pretty easy to live and let live and have a great capacity for seeing all sides to different issues and unfortunately I think that is often misread as "phobia" in some various form. It's almost as if we ( as a society) demand someone "pick a side" when in reality, there really isn't a right or wrong to the issue. Just two sides of the same coin. If I only pick one side, I lose the value of the coin itself.