Who are you voting for in 2016?

[TnT]

(05-14-2016, 04:24 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(05-14-2016, 04:20 PM)TnT Wrote: Just for the sake of argument, if society evolved somehow so that a large fraction of the folks began to think that complimenting someone is too forward or too intrusive or something, then the civil thing to do would be to dial it back.  However, I don't think we are anywhere near such.  No doubt, someplace on the InterWebs, there's a woman shrieking about being complimented.  Doesn't mean it's really an issue though.  I'll wait for more evidence.

Actually we already are at that point.  Have been for about half a decade now.  Or have you not kept up with intersectional feminism?

The end result is that retreat is the wrong course of action.  These very people I complain of will not be satisfied until they control all speech, and if they are right thought--thankfully they are wrong.  The end result of course is that the US will become one of those countries where people shoot each other over politics because in societies where people don't talk about politics they end up shooting each other over politics.

Not to get too competitive, but I think I make rounds in a VERY diverse group of folks.  Very diverse. What do you mean by "intersectional?"

I'm around folks  throughout the full socio-economic strata, most cultures, most age groups.

I understand that there are fringe groups of feminists and others, but I seldom run into any of them.  One of these folks hiked with a bunch of us on a hike 4-5 years ago, and she simply came across as a pinched, unhappy, self-victimized person.  I've simply NOT run into whole movements of people like her.