Men's Group

All the more funny when I heard someone or other was convinced that I was one of the "leaders" of that "movement", you know, stealh-moonlighting on DU.

I mean, the impetus for me to sign up on this place, originally, was a flurry of political energy spurred, in part, by my attendance at the March for Womens' Lives, in DC in April of '04. Odd way for a stealth MRA poop-bah to hatch his secret DU plot.



What I think really happened was, when DU3 came online, I like many was refreshed by the transparency and the freedom to openly acknowledge certain long-time disruption phenomena which had previously been obliquely talked about but were always hush hush... Things like sock, "shared" and zombie accounts, and the like. And I discovered that one of the numerous totally useless life skills that I apparently possess, is the ability to spot particular personality or posting patterns, combined with an uncanny memory for meaningless data. And I fully admit that a pet peeve of mine at the time was characters who flouted basic site rules (like: dont get banned, dont have multiple accounts) while simultaneously lecturing other people on the site about rules and behavior.

So, I enthusiastically spotted a few of these characters once or twice, called them on what they were doing, which probably led to an outsized reputation as either having spooky powers or at least being an overzealous "troll hunter". Really, I fell into the trap of taking this place a bit too seriously.

The implosion of meta, and a couple terms on MIRT, i think cured me of this. Of course I realize that the same return customers who I spotted, before, are back again and posting on DU now... I just don't really give a shit, anymore.

(I don't understand why people who claim to hate a site would continually come back to hang out on it, but, not my problem.)

As for the rest of it, I think most of these "fights" have been had at least once, if not more. Take "ogling". There was a big fight over "ogling" in 2011. Another, I think, in 2007. There will probably be another one in 2017. Team A will say "don't ogle" and team B will get indignant that some random stranger is assuming they do. And, so it goes.