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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:00 AM

Death threats dog female blogger

Evidence of rampant misogyny, or the price of doing business in the blogosphere?

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Thursday, March 29, 2007 01:45 AM

She Shouldn't Stop

She should investigate those who made the comments, and have them prosecuted. Certainly they can find out who it was who made the posts, can't they? There has to be some leads. Whatever the case, she shouldn't quit her blog.

Thursday, March 29, 2007 04:49 AM

re: Are you the same "Man" who was ranting the other day about how European civilization was the root of all evil (that was quite literally your basic thesis)?

I never said that Europe was the root of all evil - I only claimed that the 21st century is digging out of the incredible mess created by 19th and 20th century actions of the Europeans. To deny the unbelievable carnage of European Colonization and warfare is absurd - even little Belgium has the blood of a million Africans on it's hands- and I called you a fool for denying it and apologizing for it, but I never claimed Europe caused all evil - only the evil that raped the New World, colonized and raped the Africas, killed 6 million Jews and then washed their hands of THAT mess by dumping the remaining victims in the Middle East, killed a million Indians (in their colonization of India) and so on and so forth. That you could, with a straight face, try to apologize for the slaughter, the rape, the pillage, the thievery, the white supremacy, WW1 and WW2 - not to mention Stalinism, is more indicative of your shortcomings than mine - but if it makes you feel better, you guys make a great strudel and beautiful churches...

PS - to the fool who claimed I "even hate Canadians," that would imply that Canadians are worth hating or liking or caring about in the least. Like my post deploring the European export of misery, slavery and death, I only lambasted Canada because some moron claimed that Canadian men are somehow immune from the worship of large breasts that supposedly inflicts American men. The implication was that somehow Canada is more progressive, as if they don't share our exact same history for racism, sexism and white supremecy, but whatever, small people need to make up for their lack of stature by attacking others. I merely put them back in their place...

Thursday, March 29, 2007 04:54 AM

Ohhh, Lecastor

you say: "Look at what kind of big man you are, so brave, so strong, fearless, in the face of death threats. You want to be a man so bad that even your handle is "Man.""

From what we saw posted on her site, she didn't recieve death threats - she received juvinile taunts. And she ran like a wittle wittle bitch...

She just needs a man to protect her cowardly ass...

Thursday, March 29, 2007 06:07 AM

brightstar 65

I never threaten or insult anyone, male or female.

Sorry if my opinion is not the opinion you want to hear, but sooner or later you have to get your head out of your ass and wake up to the fact you will not always hear only that which flatters your inflated sense of self worth and entitlement.

Implying that someone has their head up their ass is indeed an insult.

I find it amusing that you can deny insulting people and then turn around and insult them just a very few sentences later in the same post.

Thursday, March 29, 2007 06:23 AM

There's a line in the old Doors song _People Are Strange_ that I think speaks to this subject..

People are strange when youre a stranger

Faces look ugly when youre alone

Women seem wicked when youre unwanted

Streets are uneven when youre down

I don't think that you'll find any of these death threat making men that have anything approaching a decent relationship with a woman..

People, including men, are social animals. We really don't react well to isolation and such isolation often drives us into very strange behavior.

Due to fear of "teh gay" in our culture, men don't get emotional connection from other men and without women these men are emotionally very isolated.

Thursday, March 29, 2007 07:13 AM

Well Man, I don't know where you grew up

I don't know where you grew up (Marquis de Sade's and Hannibal Lecter's house perhaps), but in my world, saying that you wish someone would cut off someone's head, have sex with their neck, and then ejaculate into their decapitated throat is not a "juvenile taunt."

In my view, a well-adjusted person would never really write something like that. Not only is it scary, but you also know that someone relatively sick is looking at you and thinking these things. I think that would be pretty frightening.

Thursday, March 29, 2007 07:56 AM

HAHA... now MAN is delusional!

PS - to the fool who claimed I "even hate Canadians," that would imply that Canadians are worth hating or liking or caring about in the least. Like my post deploring the European export of misery, slavery and death, I only lambasted Canada because some moron claimed that Canadian men are somehow immune from the worship of large breasts that supposedly inflicts American men. The implication was that somehow Canada is more progressive, as if they don't share our exact same history for racism, sexism and white supremecy, but whatever, small people need to make up for their lack of stature by attacking others. I merely put them back in their place...

Hey Asshole! We're stepping ahead of ourselves here thinking people are small because we call ourselves "Man". Fucker, the only person that gets "put in their place" EACH AND EVERY TIME is you and your fucking ignorance and generalizations - whether it's Victoria L. lambasting you about your ignorance about Europe or some anonymous lambasting you about Canadian men caring less for big breasts or even L.C educating you something. You have an issue with everything that's not white American male - I've seen you even butt heads with blacks on slavery and Africa before. Listen closely fucker - not because Europe and Canada had a history of misery and racism doesn't mean they have that anymore - grow up - they've progressed more than America since then. What a fucking loser you are. And aren't you the first person to denounce history as though it's a thing of the past whenever colonialism comes up (what's your favorite quote? Oh right - colonialism happens 1000 years ago. Fucker it was prevalent till the 60's and 70's last century! HAHAHA. Man's an idiot - can't quote history right - yet one of many examples of his dumbass ignorance). Man you don't put anyone in their place with your generalizations and posting anonymously. You're not "bigger" and everyone smaller because of that. You're not revered enough here to think you're high enough to be putting anyone in their place. You're the loser who thinks you're something because you're a white american male - this can only explain your issue with everything that's not white American male. And each time you go toe to toe with someone on whatever issue they end up making you look like the laughing stock - HAHAHA!

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