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Originally Posted by DarkMagus
Nobody is arguing to ban the thread on all of 2p2. This is not a goshdarn freedom of speech issue
umm, of course it is.
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The women's forum is different because it's called a women's forum and was created specifically to give women a place to get away from all the broing out
It doesn't mean what goes on there is any less sexist than what is going on here, or at least what XN and her cohorts are claiming is sexist.
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The fact that poker and 2+2 are already male-dominated spaces and so we should not make any effort to include women is circular reasoning
I never said we should not make an effort to include women. POG has made efforts to include women. We've had female mods, female roles in games ((and not just the latest controversial one) and a very supportive and friendly attitude towards the women who have tried to make this place home.
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The fact that there are female-dominated spaces elsewhere in life is irrelevant, the same issues apply
Uhh, no its not. But keep pretending.
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Having some spaces for broing out and some spaces for whatever it is women do amongst themselves (I imagine pillow fights and make-out practicing) is OK. Having almost everywhere be like that, and calling people fascists for wanting to tone it down, is lame
Were not talking about everywhere. We are talking about one ****ing thread.
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Ultimately this is not a democracy and it's up to the owners of the site, who from what I understand leave most content decisions to the mods, so really it's up to the mods. All you can say is some people want a site where broing out happens all over the place, and some people would rather it be contained to relevant forums, and there's not really a logical argument to determine who's right. It's up to the mods which people they want to make happy.
Your exaggeration of this 'broing out' saturating the forum is hilarious.
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I would argue that the people who seriously think that moving a thread from one forum to another is the same thing as aggression and coercion and fascism are the bat**** crazy ones
Keep trolling.
this is a SOCIETY (see: forum). It has a government (see: moderators and administrators). How we want our moderators governing society is just as much a free speech and free assembly issue as any national, state, local, or housing association issue.
Just because its an internet forum doesn't mean this isn't about rights and liberties or important in anyway (or obviously this thread wouldn't have so much ****ing action).