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Oh, and just to clarify, I've never had what I would consider to be sexually offensive comments made about me here at TFP. Because here, we've decided that there should be, uh, rules about appropriate responses to female members and their posting of personal information and photographs. But if that is only a courtesy being made to make women feel at ease, then it's really just a meaningless bit of protocol meant to give women a false sense of security when participating in these more vulnerable ways. Because I highly doubt most women who post here, would post without them. And maybe that's okay for some women, but it kind of deflates the concept of 'evolution' for me and turns it into a sort of internet variation on 'of course, I'll still respect you in the morning.'
I do expect more, goddamnit, and not because of some unattainable sense of propriety, but because I already know it exists.
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