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The amount of misogyny on boards these days is frightening.*Mod instruction in OP*

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  • #182
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    I don't like posting in here as a woman right now so I haven't been.

    Of your 700 odd posts, 600+ of them have been in AH, and you're only back here a month. Doesn't seem like you have an issue posting here tbh.


  • #183
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,268 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Id imagine theres a lot of women who post in After Hours who haven't noticed any major issues.

    Id be more curious to see what they think seeing as they are women and these views are meant to be aimed at them as well.


  • #184
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Of your 700 odd posts, 600+ of them have been in AH, and you're only back here a month.

    2 months, 4 days.
    Doesn't seem like you have an issue posting here tbh.


    Oh indeed I do as I already stated. As I said before, I like posting in here but it's unpleasant for a female poster in the last while.


  • #185
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,306 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    I blame the sexy street harassment thread!
    We where all grand before that!

    What a great name for a.thread that was though.


  • #186
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Id imagine theres a lot of women who post in After Hours who haven't noticed any major issues.

    Id be more curious to see what they think seeing as they are women and these views are meant to be aimed at them as well.

    How many women do you think post in here?


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  • #187
    IsMiseMyself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭IsMiseMyself


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    2 months, 4 days.




    Oh indeed I do as I already stated.

    I feel it's inconceivable that you'd be aware of your own feelings. :pac:


  • #188
    RonanP77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭RonanP77


    I hadn't noticed it to be honest. I like girls/women in general. Obviously there are a few I wouldn't be a fan of but that's the same with blokes. I've always gotten on a lot better with women for some reason.


  • #189
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,268 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    How many women do you think post in here?
    Ive no idea its impossible to tell i mean not everyone mentions there gender threw profile or post.

    Theres a lot id imagine.


  • #190
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,306 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    ewinslet wrote: »
    In the past I have tried to get discussions going on female masturbation but was immediately shot down. Presumably the mods thought I was some male troll. As a woman, I find it difficult to discuss this issue with other women, so I thought it would be easier under the veil of anonymity. But boards.ie is obviously not the place to discuss it, because the idea that women could possibly masturbate is ABSOLUTELY PREPOSTEROUS...

    Now wait for the abuse this comment gets...

    Oh contraire, I would love for you to tell me all about it...


  • #191
    Sonderkommando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Sonderkommando


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    2 months, 4 days.




    Oh indeed I do as I already stated. As I said before, I like posting in here but it's unpleasant for a female poster in the last while.

    Can you link some offensive posts/threads?


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  • #192
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    IsMiseMyself wrote: »
    I feel it's inconceivable that you'd be aware of your own feelings. :pac:

    Nah I'm just saying I have an issue with the misogyny for the laugh. OBVIOUSLY The Zohan knows how I feel more than I do myself. Sure, what would I know about how I feel.


  • #193
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Sonderkommando wrote: »
    Can you link some offensive posts threads?

    I couldn't be arsed. Do you genuinely believe it'd be hard for me to find examples? Really? Really O'Reilly?


  • #194
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,306 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    AgileMyth wrote: »
    I have no idea what misogyny means but if it's got nice tits I'm cool with it.

    Hahaha ahhh.


  • #195
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Id imagine theres a lot of women who post in After Hours who haven't noticed any major issues.

    Id be more curious to see what they think seeing as they are women and these views are meant to be aimed at them as well.


    I'd also imagine there are lots of women who don't feel the need to disclose their gender, using opening statements like "as a woman"


  • #196
    Sonderkommando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Sonderkommando


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    I couldn't be arsed.

    That's a very defeatist attitude!


  • #197
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    lufties wrote: »
    the likes angela scanlon makes me misogynistic, so many women are like that these days..pretentious, fake, think they're hilarious..At the back of it all the bull**** they know they can use they're sex appeal/looks to get what they want.

    That therapy not working out for you mate? Perhaps the self administered aversion therapy of constantly exposing yourself to the stimuli of women typing opinions and you building up a good head of general disgust at them is back firing a bit?


  • #198
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Sonderkommando wrote: »
    That's a very defeatist attitude!


    That's the kind o' gal I am.


  • #199
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,268 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    I'd also imagine there are lots of women who don't feel the need to disclose their gender, using opening statements like "as a woman"

    All i know is in nearly every thread i post in on here plenty of women reply and are part of it. There not a dying breed in here and id imagine a lot of them dont have any issues with this forum or the site.

    There on here just to get from it what they want to never mind anything else.


  • #200
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I'm more of a misanthrope myself

    We should unite or is that untie


  • #201
    liz lemoncello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭liz lemoncello


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Have talked to lots of girls in real life who had no issue with talking about it in the presence of lads and received no problems for it so not sure why you'd have trouble doing the same in private with only girl friends


    Not my post that is being responded to here, but I'll hazard a guess: everyone is different?

    In any case, with all due respect to ewinslet, is there not a forum better suited than AH to the discussion of female masturbation?


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  • #202
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    All i know is in nearly every thread i post in on here plenty of women reply and are part of it. There not a dying breed in here and id imagine a lot of them dont have any issues with this forum or the site.

    There on here just to get from it what they want to never mind anything else.

    Well, I for one stopped following this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057321846 earlier today as I was sick to the stomach from the generalisations and band-wagon jumping about women having a "cvnt gene". I only pop in here to AH till I can take no more, but like others I think it's got worse recently.


  • #203
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    when I first started here there'd be the classic comments along the lines of "make me a sandwich/get back in the kitchen" "there's no women on the internet hardy har har" "Pics or gtfo" etc etc. Found them mildly irritating at the time, never imagined that seven years later I'd be missing them and flooded with nostalgia in the face of:

    1: Suspended sentences for sexual assault being somehow held up as a damning indictment of the prejudice against males in the justice system.

    2: Posters warning other men not to get married because if it doesn't work out a woman will take your house, your kids, and your fcuking soul. Because that's what we do.

    3: The inexorable draw that a thread on why feminism is still relevant has on mostly male posters, flocking in to tell us that no we don't, no, we're wrong. Not just "some aspects of feminism" or "radical feminism", but all of it.

    4: Men putting us somewhere on the spectrum between deluded idiots and two-faced liars whenever the subject of what we find attractive in a man comes up.

    Obviously not all men, etc etc. Also I'm not a big fan of most internet feminism, but the backlash against it (which in certain respects is very valid) has brought some real slimey little sh1ts crawling out from under their rocks. The mood on here sometimes can definitely be very misogynistic but it's just a reflection of what's going on online more generally.


  • #204
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Id imagine theres a lot of women who post in After Hours who haven't noticed any major issues.

    Id be more curious to see what they think seeing as they are women and these views are meant to be aimed at them as well.

    I don't bother posting in AH that often but reading through threads I haven't noticed anything more than the odd joke which while not very funny most of the time I wouldn't consider it offensive or malicious.

    I hadn't noticed any more than usual in recent times tbh, but that's not to say there hasn't been more posted


  • #205
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    How many women do you think post in here?

    very very few....though it is hard to tell at times....roughly 66% to 33%...there surly 1% transgender??
    *don't want to offend transgendar...hope ive that worded right!!
    Shrap wrote: »
    That therapy not working out for you mate? Perhaps the self administered aversion therapy of constantly exposing yourself to the stimuli of women typing opinions and you building up a good head of general disgust at them is back firing a bit?

    male/female I don't care...but jesus I hate that word mate:mad::mad:

    *I agree with rest of your post though:o:)


  • #206
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    But you defended him when I suppposedly attacked him?

    Your comment seemed pretty pointless, why bother telling him something he already knows.

    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    You can remain willfully ignorant to it all if you want but it doesn't mean it's not true.

    You have a terrible of habit of making assumptions when you post (eg. "willfully"). There are perhaps some isolated cases of misogyny, but as I said before it is not a big problem, certainly not in the way you or the OP make out.


  • #207
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,107 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    tomwaterford wrote: »



    male/female I don't care...but jesus I hate that word mate:mad::mad:
    :o:)

    how about chum? :pac:


  • #208
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    SparkySpitfire wrote: »
    Sorry milord I'll try to do all your work for you next time I promise you won't have to research anything yourself!

    You want him to read every single post on boards.ie and divine which ones are, in your opinion, misogynistic?


  • #209
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,268 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Shrap wrote: »
    Well, I for one stopped following this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057321846 earlier today as I was sick to the stomach from the generalisations and band-wagon jumping about women having a "cvnt gene". I only pop in here to AH till I can take no more, but like others I think it's got worse recently.

    Me personally i find it hard to post in AH at times because i have no interest in getting into a lot of the topics.

    They dont really offend me its more i know they will be either boring or total train wrecks. For example the thread you mentioned in fairness before that even gets going you know the path it will go down so thats why i didnt bother with it.

    This is what i mean by avoiding things in AH.


  • #210
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    All i know is in nearly every thread i post in on here plenty of women reply and are part of it. There not a dying breed in here and id imagine a lot of them dont have any issues with this forum or the site.

    There on here just to get from it what they want to never mind anything else.

    I post in here a lot and but it doesn't mean I don't find the misogynistic undertones unpleasant. I avoid certain threads and stick with the more light-hearted ones but the ones to avoid are more becoming more prolific in the last while.

    Why ignore the women (and men) who DO have an issue with it? Look at those who thanked the posts on the first page. That's a fair whack of the regular female posters. Why should our POV be discounted because some women don't agree with us?


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  • #211
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    male/female I don't care...but jesus I hate that word mate:mad::mad:

    *I agree with rest of your post though:o:)

    Ha! Clearly :P Sorry, got an English fella. It may have something to do with me overusing the word. "Dude" any better? My kids prefer it...?


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