Well done. That's your job - to moderate. And in any case, the misogyny here is often WAY over the line.
I'm not disagreeing with you. That's why I brought up the Zags thing in the first place. The "including personal information to insult someone" is a good point about what was wrong with Zags' post.
No, but some posters have been banned for posting PMs directed at them that call them every name in the book. <cough cough>
(I'm assuming we belong to the same culture.) To me, whore and asshole are very different. Calling a woman a whore means that she is at best promiscuous and at worst a prostitute. Calling a woman an asshole means she's mean spirited. Calling a man a whore means he is promiscuous. Calling a man an asshole means he's mean spirited. Man as asshole and woman as asshole are the same. Man as whore and woman as whore are different. Traditionally (up to the present day), men as celebrated for their promiscuity. Women are shunned for it, and the idea of women even considering sex with multiple partners has been used as an insult for time immemorial. In regards to Zags talking about MM's family... yeah that's fucked up. But we're talking about personal insults, which we usually think of as single words or phrases designed to hurt or intimidate. Zags was being a dick with what he said, but I don't think it was an insult. It was perhaps insulting.
There are no ongoing threads for weeks or months about Zags in the staff forum. There are a number about MM and his latest antics and complaint from other posters about him. As long as we're being transparent.
I still think this is the most classless thing on this board, since the moderator who uses it made it knowing the health of my kids.
I'm more of the opinion that it's wrong for a woman to hit a man, but it's more wrong for a man to hot a woman because of the intrinsic physical differences between the sexes. Our that it's wrong to insult someone, but it's more wrong to insult someone based on their skin color or gender. It basically sounds like you're suggesting that ignoring sexism or racism is the way to make it disappear, and I completely disagree worth that notion. People don't change unless there's an incentive (or disincentive) that motivates that change. Fact is, culturally, societally, the disincentive to combat racism and sexism (among other -isms) is to respond more strongly when they occur. It's perfectly reasonable. As for MZ's comment, I agree that he should be suspended too. What he said about MM, pissed me off, even moreso after he responded further completely unapologetic about it. That crap has no place here.
I remember the time I put my phone number on one of the boards and Kingspeed called me. I told him PapaG was a ***. I felt bad afterwards.
This is where MM's complaints go off the rails. Playing the victim card? Seriously? Busting somebody's chops is one thing. Rage is something else. MM would never tolerate someone calling his wife a whore, or his foster kids n****r.....but he wants to be free to use those terms himself. Seems to me he is the one with the double standard!
If that is what you feel each time you see it then it should be removed. I don't remember the exact story but it was about Lupus or something and I did watch House and recognize the reference so I am not taking sides.......my point is that we can all live without it and even though it shouldn't be banned the person using it should volunteer to take it down.
Yes, there's phsyical abuse. There's also psychological abuse that's becoming more of an inherent problem in all aspects of the internet. The psychological abuse should be the focus of this thread if you guys and gals are wanting to go down that road.
I'm cool with everyone homeslice. Plus I'm getting old. Fuck man I yelled at my mom that I hated her when I was 15. Didn't everyone? I don't hold grudges over words. Not for too long anyway.
