What we're supposed to call them?

Myself, I call them totalitarians and thugs.

Speaking of which, for anyone who hasn't seen it, enjoy "Feminist Hitler":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g7PLTTcFm0

Maybe they should do some community service in a women's prison (no male guards at all please) to see what their 'perfect' society is all about.

(They might just learn that 'people' are people.

Would it be insensitive and sexist for me to observe that a lot of feminist complaints reduce to, "we don't get to talk at and lecture other people as much as we want to"?

My favorite term on Julia Baird's sign is "silenced." One sees it from time to time in similar contexts, and I'm still not sure what it means. My guess is it means something similar to "someone disagreed with me."

Kind of like when someone accuses someone else of "not listening," when what is really meant is "not obeying."

Yea, it is funny what "feminism" has turned into.

Most companies that I have worked at all participate in the Women in Tech "mission."

Interestingly, but not surprisingly, men (such as myself) who are also involved in tech are NOT allowed.

The last company that I was at had all these groups; such as, Latinos in the Workplace, LGBT in the workplace, Asians in the workplace, etc. Missing, of course, is the white men in the workplace group. THAT would be considered racist; while the other groups aren't.

This company also held a Women in Tech event. They did allow some of men" to join for the start of the event; but, then after the first speaker they asked men to leave!

That was, in my opinion, worse than not allowing men at all. The "insult" of being told to leave a meeting simply on the basis of your gender! Just imagine the outrage if they asked women to leave!

Boeing has all of those ethnic affinity groups. They did actually start a white employees' affinity group at one time. However, the white employees all correctly identified it as being a trap, and declined to join. So that didn't last long.

A couple of the ethnic groups did try to be inclusive. The Asian-Americans group made a particular effort to advertise that they welcomed everyone.

"Hmm, I'm having a bit of a hard time discovering the horror in her life, reflecting "The difficulty in talking, walking, working without being harassed, abused, assaulted, raped, silenced."

A couple of things are going on here. One is called "damseling" in which a woman pleads piteously for some male protector (often the "patriarchal" state) to defend her from some threat. This is the behavior that launched a thousand lynch mobs.

The other thing is the "Ophelia Complex" which is basically a cluster of behaviors that are a play for attention. The person runs around moaning about a lot of drama in hopes that people will feel sorry for her and take an interest.

Look at the U.S. Congress where you will find:
-The Congressional Black Caucus
-The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and
-The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues.

But no Congressional White Caucus.

But no Congressional White Caucus.

That's because Congress is the White Caucus. Duh.

Well, that's what the Usual Suspects would tell you.

BlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlah.

"Damnit, you're NOT listening to me!?!"

'Right you are, Lass... when I used to, it got me nowhere, so?' :shrug:

--Kind of like when someone accuses someone else of "not listening," when what is really meant is "not obeying."-- Old RPM Daddy

My response could be forseen...
"BlahBlahBlahBlah, acknowledge your privilege!"

'Yeah? MAKE ME. Else? STFU.'

Once upon a time, I could still hear those demands being made... but I'm old, and deaf, and DGAF... Though for my 16yr old daughter, the key issue is teaching her to not take no sh*t from nobody... not from boys. Nor from girls.

I saw a woman being microaggressed at the grocery store the other day.

The bag boy (white, of course) was lewdly spreading open her shopping bag and forcefully inserting sausages, cucumbers, hot dogs, zucchini, french bread and large aerosol cans, just jamming them in without any tenderness or preparation.

The poor victim nearly ran to her car.

Anxious to get home to a safe space, no doubt.

Gog;

I'll bet he busted her eggs too!

"Silenced" is particularly ridiculous. And I say that as a woman who is a bigmouth. Sometimes, a guy will have a voice that's big enough to boom over me. I can still deal, like when I said I'd walk off the set of a TV show if loud, rude asshole Frank Pastorre kept talking over me.

Whaddya know, I got to talk.

My ex sister-in-law is one off the alleged feminists who has no sense of humor and finds offense at any turn. Yet she has no problem attributing anything she doesn't like to men, or even anywhere else. Her 10 year old leaves her a message she didn't like? She says someone made him say it. She called someone on pain medicine a "pill popper". Quite the shaming and intolerance. Unfortunately, there are quite a few people like that in Portland, where judgmental haters need only to spin their innate nastiness into a social injustice context to keep their halos shining.

Like Amy, I was amused at the irony of a person holding up a sign on a forum with an international reach complaining that she's being silenced.

And since her sign did not contain a complete sentence, I'm still in the dark as to what she is complaining about and what she wants done about it. "The difficulty in talking, walking, working without being harassed, abused, assaulted, raped, silenced" is not a complete sentence.

Maybe she's not being silenced as much as being stared at in stupefied wonder as to what the hell she's saying.

I read a great post in a response to an International Womens day article that I wanted to share but now I can't find it. The article was about how horrible women have it in tech.

The main points of the comment was how when the commenter was growing up being interested in computers and learning and stuff got a guy labelled as a nerd or whatever and often times beat up by the cool kids and jocks. Girls did not. Being interested in computers and stuff was generally looked down on until the late 90s or so when lots people saw gold there. Women were/are highly prized hires and you often had lots of single geeky guys who wanted more women around. Though he noted he has seen a change in recent years... people don't want the women around because she might take offense to something or whatever.

I'll post a link if I can find again.

"The main points of the comment was how when the commenter was growing up being interested in computers and learning and stuff got a guy labelled as a nerd or whatever and often times beat up by the cool kids and jocks. "

Yeah, I was a computer nerd in the 1970s and I went through that. Me and the other computer geeks knew to stay out of view of the football players and kewl kidz, so we didn't get beaten that much. But we were ostracized. Not just by other students. Back then, the Left was very anti-technology generally (it was lefty-feminist Bella Abzug who got the Apollo program shut down), and anti-computer specifically. There were serious attempts to ban computers or restrict them to government uses only, and the leftists maintained fantasies of putting the executives of IBM and DEC on trial for crimes against humanity. I had the misfortune of taking an English literature class from a leftist teacher in high school. He made it clear in class that he thought computers were the work of the devil and that I was an evil person for working with them. When I had the temerity to disagree (backed with some cites) with him on my term paper, he gave me a zero on it without marking any corrections, and that gave me an F for the class since the term paper was 65% of the class grade. I had to re-take the class (under another instructor).

I meant to add that since I went to an all-boys high school, the first girl geeks I encountered in were in college. The good ones were, in a way, feminist ideals: they were dedicated to what they did, and they made no excuses for themselves for being women.

Between the third and fourth lines, the sign should have "feeling like I'm..." This would almost seem like it made more sense.