Anita Sarkeesian Forced to Cancel Talk Over Shooting Threat

I think the fourth paragraph in the letter shown in the article makes it clear that the person is not speaking just about Anita. For instance, when he says 'Anita Sarkeesian is everything wrong with the feminist woman... bear witness to what feminist lies and poison have done to the men of America' that implies to me that he has problems with rather more women than just her. Are you quibbling about whether or not he hates them? The definition you posted includes 'mistrust' which I think is pretty evident either way.

Also, I'll point out that in the original quote you jumped from defining 'misogynistic' to 'misogyny'. If we're talking about semantics, then here's the definition for that: 'reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.'

I believe the letter in the article falls into misogynistic territory pretty unambiguously.

I would say that he is speaking specifically to a group of women, feminists. That means the writer is a bigot, certainly, but not a misogynist. He is intolerant of feminists to be sure, but nothing there suggests he hates, mistrusts, dislikes or mistreats women, just feminist women. Granted, that may be a purely semantic argument, but i think the distinction is important.

To make it even crazier, the university is ignoring any risks and didn't even mention this to Anita - she learned about the threat through Twitter - as the state has open carry laws.

@nmarebfly: @kidkarolus: Sorry to jump in your replies guys, I think we can all agree that whoever wrote this doesn't sound like a good person atall, regardless of his beliefs.

Alright, three o'clock. Locking this one up again as I said I would when I unlocked it. Sorry if this gets your rustles jimmied; as I feel like I've said a few times this week, the moderators and myself need some time off from these kinds of things. I have a number of other site duties that I've had to basically completely neglect this week in favor of working with the moderators on these threads for something like 20ish hours so far. Perhaps you feel that they don't need overseeing, and hey, great, but hopefully it's also clear that they tend to attract a very high volume of posts that can turn nasty at the drop of a hat. Perhaps I could let the moderators handle it but I feel it's important for staff to be somewhat involved in high-drama forum threads like this one. That doesn't mean that I take joy in being King Censor Nazi (sometimes I even undelete stuff that they delete!).

Today's comments have gone relatively smoothly, so, thanks for that. If we kick this up again maybe we can try to start talking about what it would really take to find some middle ground on all this, if that's even possible. Right now these threads feel like wind attacking a cloud; a lot of air is moving around but nothing ever seems to come of it. I'm not sure that there's much of a resolution here, at least within the context of these threads, but maybe we'll take the evening to think about it and give the GG topics a break for tonight.

If you post after this post because you still have a window open, I'll likely delete it and send it to you for posting whenever this is unlocked. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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