If anybody on TrekBBS makes inappropriate sexual comments or overtures to another Poster, it should be reported and dealt with.
Otherwise, many of the comments here make me wonder what century I'm in. It seems that a lot of people here actually believe that men and women are different species or something; the most sexist comments are the ones coming from people who think they are complaining about sexism. Boys locker room mentality? Are you kidding me? I was the manager of a Midwifery Service for fourteen years and I sat through many a staff meeting where these women-- ranging in age from 30s through 60s-- discussed men and sex. If you people are uncomfortable with the discussions in Misc, you would have run screaming from that room and joined a monastery or something.
I think part of the problem is that people have no problem listening to or engaging in such discussions with their own gender-- but become uncomfortable when with the opposite sex. And there's only one solution to that: Grow up.
And calling women "bitches" or "tramps" or whatever. Is there even an equivalent word for men? "Manwhore" doesn't quite cut it.
Yeah, men who call women cunts are dicks. My repressed Irish Catholic mother calls women, including herself, bitches. Tramps? Is that a bad word? It just makes me think of an old Cher song.
There's a difference between being sexually attracted to women and viewing women entirely through that lens. Whether we like it or not, having threads devoted solely to whether you think a woman is fuckable puts off an incredibly negative impression, as if a woman's only value is in whether she's worthy of a guy's dick.
When we have Threads about writers, we view them entirely through the lens of their writing. When we have Threads about athletes, we view them entirely through the lens of their athleticism. Same thing with actors, artists, sfx artists, dancers and so on. Putting beauty or sexuality in a separate category where the normal rules of Human behavior do not apply is just an old religious idea that has no place in the 21st century.
Hey, we have a lot of frustrated, bitter nerds here
And this is your idea of a comment that
is appropriate?
This sort of thing makes me angry. I grew up in the era of Women's Lib, when women were struggling hard to be seen as the equal of men. They didn't want to be treated as second-class citizens or the weaker sex. The idea that Misc should have divans for maidens to faint upon at hearing off-color comments by uncouth males would have pissed them off, and it pisses me off. The backward politics of this century boggles my mind.
If it doesn't work, then we can try something else.
