@awjt here, my final post. My response is that I got tired of being tone policed. Especially since suggestions were asked for, as the premise of the thread. Mine were twisted and taken out of context and used as a hammer back on my head. Sure, you (all) have a right to do that. It’s your community and you set the rules and enforce the tone you want to keep here: fair, balanced, unbalanced, reactionary, mean-spirited, cordial; whatever you want it to be like here, you can do it. But I also have a right not to participate any more in a conversation that is so easily contorted into a baseless personal attack. That would be insanity to want to keep stepping up for more beatings. So, I’ll take my fingers elsewhere.
As a very busy person, I don’t have time for trying to convince people of anything online. Especially considering that I am the least unfriendly person to women, actively including them at every turn in my own workplace and viewing them as complete equals and friends, and I just cringe and hate it when men shut them down, talk over them, belittle them and make their lives hard, just for being female and I have no hesitation to shut HIM down for being an asshole. Plus I have a daughter, and do you think in your right minds for one second that I’m going to be the kind of dad to teach my daughter to carry herself through life as subservient to men? LOL on that. I do not even think so. You clearly took no time of your own to listen and stop and think about what you were saying to me.
So, carry forward knowing that you all participated in a live friendly-fire incident, and I’m outta here. Peace, mutants. Be nicer to people, OK? It will pay dividends. I promise.
