This blog is not a democracy or an anarchy. While open discussion is encouraged, it seems that talking about feminism brings out the absolute worst in some people. To ensure that honest debate is at a maximum while asshattery remains at a minimum, please observe the following principles of polite discourse:
1) Anonymity is looked down on. Please endeavor to sign your comments. Anonymous and insulting comments will be deleted. Go troll somewhere else. In fact, even signed, insulting comments will be deleted.
2) We're all adults here. Though some of my ideas may not be popular (and oh how it galls me that feminism is unpopular!), I arrived at them through study and careful examination. These are not just ideas I grabbed out of nowhere because they sounded good or because, "it felt right." If you take a position, please put a somewhat similar amount of thought in it. If you insist on arguing from an emotional perspective, at least respect that other people have viewpoints which may be as equally valid as yours. Disagreement is not a personal insult.
3) Please please please try to cite your sources.
4) Name calling and being purposefully offensive will also get you deleted. These are the tricks thirteen year old boys use to get attention. Like I said, we're all adults here and you're going to have to work a little harder for attention. If you can't tell the difference between being purposefully offensive and challenging someone's idea's, go read up on rhetoric and then come back.
5) It'd be totally awesome if you're at least passingly familiar with feminist theory, not just what you've picked up about feminists from the mass media.
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I intend to yell, and scream; to rant and rave.
Or, at least I say I'm going to do that. Who knows what I'll actually do.
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