Wth all due respect, how do you know? Maybe you should try next time. I think the mods in Misc are more than reasonable (and though I'm biased a bit, I try to be objective about this
). Even if it's not actionable, many mods are open to conversation via PM about these sorts of problems.
Repeated personal experience and seeing how other people attempting to use the moderation system on this board has shown me that it is not worth the effort.
References? At the very least, this is an exaggeration. There's plenty of discussion about female stereotypes - 100 to 1? I think you're looking for things that aren't there. References: From slutty confused cousins to older women to those girls that string you along and then they're dating your best friend, this stuff is everywhere. I was in a thread not too long ago (right before my last unofficial 'hiatus') where it was impossible to convince the populace that women were NOT gold diggers by default, especially younger women (the culture was blamed, but that doesn't change its misogynistic nature).
All of those threads get jumped on. They turn in to pages and pages of people taking the piss out of the person who started them.
If you want to see that as men getting ragged on and women getting a free pass, go ahead. But you're wrong, and us women hearing you reiterating these points again and again isn't forwarding your agenda of equality, it's making you look like a misogynist.
You jump to that word far too easily, I can easily counter that your repeated use of it makes you look like a misandrist. I know that's not true, but it's funny how things can make you look.
It's funny how suggesting that an all-male moderating staff means they're letting anti-female sentiment slide, especially when they're just following rules set down by a woman, can make you look too.
I'm really trying to say this as respectfully as possible, because I like you Hermiod, and remember interacting with you a lot. But I'm not just going to stand down when I see this kind of stuff coming up again and again --- especially when it's driving me from this board (and perhaps some other TBBS women) again and again.
And I am not going to stand down when I see this, as in this very kind of thread, coming up again and again. I'm not going to stand down even when someone suggests I
look like a misogynist just for criticising one woman, a woman who gets criticised every day on GTV&M.
As a side note, perhaps you can remember the QS&F thread where I went after the people talking about putting pictures of you and
IHR and the like in their personal "spank bank". Everyone forgets that one when they pick on the fact that I don't like the over-sexualisation and increasingly NSFW nature of the picture thread.
The fact is, it was posters complaining about female friends, with that same kind of sense of 'why do we have to put up with these cheating, freaked out, manipulative women, etc etc' that I see all over the goddamned place. But you know what? It was mostly lighthearted. It didn't have to be about women. *I* didn't make it about women, and I don't think they intended to make it about women.
This thread was about women from the first post.
Babaganoosh and
Alaedhros certainly steered it that way if it wasn't.
You're putting words in people's mouths. You're acting like you *want* them to think in misandrist ways, because it will prove the point you always seem to want to make.
In this case, as I have already explained to
Ria, I was asking her a question. What did she expect the two posters to do ? Would you suggest that they take advantage of their friends when they are drunk ? That was my point.
In the UK, having sex with someone who is not sober enough to give adequate consent is treated as something not too far away from rape.
It could be inferred that she was suggesting that they, and by extension men in general, should be sexually available to women on demand as much as some men would like women to be.
It's unfair to put words into the mouths of other posters. And sure, I'm not saint, but I try to police myself as best I can. Gloria did *not* deserve to get jumped on, because you have a beef with women calling out behaviors that happen to be associated with something a man is doing. Especially not in a joke thread.
Again, I did not jump on her. I already explained to her that I was not angry with her and I was just asking a question.
Anyway, it's late here and I'm going to bed. I'll apologise again to anyone who thinks I was angry with them or was attacking them.
Not just studied it 
