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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
Weird thing about the human condition is that everyone thinks they're a moderate. Nowhere is that more true than when discussing civil liberty and equality. People have surprisingly little perception of the real boundaries of the discussion and get stuck in their own lines in the sand.
I've done it too. I've sat at a desk discussing the female/male pay gap before and considered myself moderate while arguing for what I now recognise is the wrong side. I couldn't have been more wrong, but it took a lot of challenges to that mindset before I started realizing my attitude towards feminism wasn't as moderate and rational as I'd originally thought. And that's an experience a lot of people never get through in life, because of confirmation bias
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I assume you're speaking in general since the only thing we've really been discussing is the existence of the friendzone. Unless you have particular instances you're thinking about. I don't pretend to be much of anything when it comes to feminism. I agree with much of it, but in general I just don't think about it enough to really know where I stand on the misogyny scale. I like to think I'm female friendly, but I'm not arrogant enough to pretend to be enlightened.
I just don't think the atmosphere of the site has become antagonistic towards women. Most of the people on here are still fuzzy wuzzy liberals who hold many of the same views as Sansa, if not the invective.