[the dumbest and least-charitable interpretations of me and Rob recommending “maybe don’t be a total dick?”]
This is an extremely tendentious summary of the posts in question.
I find it very implausible to suppose that you’ve never encountered the sort of thing where someone says “all we’re saying is don’t be a dick, man”, but what they’re actually saying is something much more specific and also much more objectionable. Such things are a staple of modern political discourse on these here interwebs.
Well, now you’re doing it, and it’s no less dishonest when you do it than when random armchair feminists on Twitter do it. Surely this sort of distortion is not necessary.
This is an extremely tendentious summary of the posts in question.
I find it very implausible to suppose that you’ve never encountered the sort of thing where someone says “all we’re saying is don’t be a dick, man”, but what they’re actually saying is something much more specific and also much more objectionable. Such things are a staple of modern political discourse on these here interwebs.
Well, now you’re doing it, and it’s no less dishonest when you do it than when random armchair feminists on Twitter do it. Surely this sort of distortion is not necessary.