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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on December 10, 2014, 07:14:03 PM
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Oh my.
From the closed meta forum, so no link; sorry.
XemaSab (59,030 posts) Mon Sep 1, 2014, 08:19 PM
Have you ever considered adding an admin who isn't a cisgendered, able-bodied, straight, white male?
I think it would go a long ways towards avoiding the appearance that the DU admins aren't sensitive to the concerns of women, gays, racial minorities, transpeople, and so forth.
Skinner (59,941 posts) Wed Sep 3, 2014, 12:07 PM
1. We don't have the money to hire any more admins.
But I think in a way, we added literally thousands of admins who aren't cisgendered, able-bodied, straight, white males when we moved into DU3. For the first decade of this website's existence the three DU administrators had complete dictatorial control, and we chose to voluntarily give it up. Being one of the three official admins on DU isn't actually a particularly powerful job anymore -- for the most part the members run the site, and as far as I can tell all points of view are well represented.
XemaSab (59,030 posts) Wed Sep 3, 2014, 10:14 PM
2. "All points of view are well represented"
Including the points of view of sexists, racists, trolls, and so forth.
There's a stink in here, and Febreze isn't going to cover it up.
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XemaSab (59,030 posts) Sat Dec 6, 2014, 02:45 PM
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3. It's an absolute fact
that there are certain trolls here who take almost all threads about women and people of color and derail them with false accusations, false equivalency, and false butthurt.
Go into half the threads about #blacklivesmatter and you'll see the same assholes in there time and time again complaining that people just don't care about all the white men who get shot by the cops and why shouldn't it be #alllivesmatter?
Go into half the threads about women and sexual harassment or rape and there are the same exact assholes telling everyone how offended they are that someone once said that all men are potential rapists and how this hurts their tender feelings even though EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THAT ALL MEN ARE POTENTIAL RAPISTS.
One of the more notorious individuals went into a thread today about #blacklivesmatter to say that #GamerGate was the "pro-integrity" side of the debate and the anti-#GamerGate side "wasn't entirely innocent of wrongdoing either." Yes, he's defending the people who made rape threats against women who dared to have an opinion about video games.
You don't see this because you're one of the privileged class. Your fellow admins don't see this because they're in the privileged class too.
But women and people of color sure as shit see this, and we're pissed.
A Jury voted 4-3 to hide this post on Sat Dec 6, 2014, 03:24 PM. Reason: This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
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Ouch!
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Ouch!
If I were my fellow alum, I'd toss the bitch off Skins's island without further ado.
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WHAT? No furries?
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"cisgendered"
That is a new one to me.
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What is "cisgendered"? I have never heard of that word. :???: :wtf2:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
Cisgender and cissexual (often abbreviated to simply cis) describe related types of gender identity where individuals' experiences of their own gender match the sex they were assigned at birth.
In other words...normal.
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What is "cisgendered"? I have never heard of that word. :???: :wtf2:
I had to look it up.
People who identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.
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What is "cisgendered"? I have never heard of that word. :???: :wtf2:
Its an ugly made up word to replace happy words such as 'sane', 'normal', and 'heterosexual'. DUmmies are not content to just eliminate words that make them feel bad anymore, they also want to eliminate words that make others feel good.
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democrat men are cisgendered.
That's why most normal people call them sissies.
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democrat men are cisgendered.
That's why most normal people call them sissies.
Cissies, but the c is a soft c.
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In other words...normal.
Just another made up word.
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You don't see this because you're one of the privileged class. Your fellow admins don't see this because they're in the privileged class too.
They don't see it because they don't have to read your drivel on a daily basis. That's what the jury system is for.
Just keep buying stars, Valentine hearts, and all that other stuff.
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In other words...normal.
They make it sound like a slur. :whatever:
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I guess with that jury decision, she's now on a sabbatical, and won't be able to post for three months, until early March.
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XemaSab (59,030 posts) Mon Sep 1, 2014, 08:19 PM
Have you ever considered adding an admin who isn't a cisgendered, able-bodied, straight, white male?
Underground Panther, spokescat for DU's non-cisgendered, non-able-bodied, non-straight, non-white, non-males, is unavailable for comment, as she's locked up in a small room with padded walls again. There is a connection to be made there.
I think it would go a long ways towards avoiding the appearance that the DU admins aren't sensitive to the concerns of women, gays, racial minorities, transpeople, and so forth.
Skins doesn't give a shit about your concerns poutrage, you twat. Now get your ass out to the kitchen and make Skinner a sammich.
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You know, I don't follow the reasoning of the primitive, this idea that a woman, gay, or minority would be more "sensitive" than three normal guys, to the needs of all the women, gays, or minorities on Skins's island.
Given the self-centered nature of the primitives, that's not likely.
Each primitive cares only about his own self, not about any particular ethnic, social, or biological group in which the primitive's categorized.
"Me first and only; screw everybody else."
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They make it sound like a slur. :whatever:
South Park mocked the notion of cisgender earlier this season.
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South Park mocked the notion of cisgender earlier this season.
I saw that.
The Chicken Vindaloop episode was funnier.
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You know, I don't follow the reasoning of the primitive, this idea that a woman, gay, or minority would be more "sensitive" than three normal guys, to the needs of all the women, gays, or minorities on Skins's island.
My God, I think coach just called Skimmer, Lord Marblehead, and the elusive, enigmatic Elad "three normal guys".
Surely I misunderstood.
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If they are not pleased with DU, than why not start their own forum. No?
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that there are certain trolls here who take almost all threads about women and people of color and derail them with false accusations, false equivalency, and false butthurt.
Oh, now, noXema, I think there is a downright abundance of false accusations, false equivalency, and false butthurt from all the fubargendered and minorities (Real and otherwise) on DU, as well as from the normal males.
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My God, I think coach just called Skimmer, Lord Marblehead, and the elusive, enigmatic Elad "three normal guys".
Surely I misunderstood.
Not necessarily. It's all about the context. If we're talking about the DUmp, then yes, they are "normal guys." To the rest of the civilized world, . . . not so much.
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Not necessarily. It's all about the context. If we're talking about the DUmp, then yes, they are "normal guys." To the rest of the civilized world, . . . not so much.
Yeah, that's it.
When compared with the primitives, my fellow alum Skins, the elusive enigmatic Elad, and Lord Marblehead EarlG, are blatantly normal.
Which would you rather have following you down a dark street in the middle of the night?--a primitive, or one of them?