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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
I must have missed that post; could you link it?
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Yup, it's here:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/2008-us...ml#post2557369
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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
I don't think it's a gender thing, either. I think it's a people thing. I think there are people on this board who are tired of banging their head against the Wall of Tilted Politics. I'm fairly sure females aren't the only ones.
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See, I guess I feel that it both is and isn't a gender thing. To be clear, I don't think it HAS to be a gender issue, and that's been my point on this thread... if anything, these patterns are just a wider reflection of the things we have all learned in our lifetimes of gender socialization, but they are not hard-core wirings. I do know a lot more women than men who would rather not rock the political boat, so to speak, and that does bother me somewhat... but I don't know if it's important enough of an association to keep harping on it (as I have been doing, perhaps because I don't know where else to go).
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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
I would say we ought to discourage dogpiling on people we disagree with and instead encourage healthy debate. That is the crux of the problem; healthy debate is hard to find in such a place. How do we get back to doing that there? We seem to be capable of doing it elsewhere on the board, such as us fine ladies are doing here. What is it about Politics--about that forum in particular--that keeps that from taking hold over there? It's not the lack of women posting, that's certain.
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Excellent question, and the reason for this thread's existence.
I started this in the LL because I do feel that we have a more "fluid" style of communication about touchy subjects over here--whether that's related to gender or not, I don't know. I didn't want people getting jumpy and possibly defensive, as often happens in Politics. I also knew that if I started this thread in Politics directly, a lot of women would simply not post on the thread--and that's what I'm trying to avoid so far. I want it to be a "safe" thread--and if I do move it to Politics, I want it to remain safe.