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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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Friday, March 30, 2007 05:02 PM

Ben Dover

Of course he won't. I'm not one of those many people sending him hate mail now for his actions anyways :).

Friday, March 30, 2007 06:23 PM

brightstar65

I could go on, but I am sure your orthodox and heavily invested view refuses you the ability to accept any arguments besides those that posit women are good, men as bad. I am also sure you think I am not entitled to an opinion that does not square with orthodox feminism because I am not a woman.

I never said that men are all bad and women all good, I'm not surprised that you think I said that though.

Of course you are entitled to your opinion, I'm a firm believer in freedom of expression. That doesn't mean that I agree with your opinion though.

You would be surprised at just how unorthodox many of my views are. I got roundly and thoroughly chewed out by some feminists on another site just a few days ago for arguing against a point of their orthodoxy. I stuck to my guns and eventually prevailed though. I just do it with facts and logic without bringing personalities into the discussion.

I calls 'em like I sees 'em..

Friday, March 30, 2007 06:50 PM

Kindly do not feed the trolls

Just a friendly reminder to the vast majority of sane people who post letters to Salon.

Friday, March 30, 2007 09:02 PM

late to the party

But reading some of these posts, I just wanted to reiterate what a boring, irritating moron Ben Dover is, not to mention a liar. Remember how he claims in the letters pages here (smoking gun, Benny) to have gotten MBAs from Yale AND Princeton? Lying douchebag.

He himself said his wife cuckolded him. Good for her. She finally got to experience more than a half-inch penis, I guess.

And no, I'm not fat. I just know that you suck, scumbag.

Incidentally, I realize I ought to feel bad for those lacrosse players you're so hung up on (do you have a thing for them? nice cute little butts or something? are you "conflicted"?). But to be honest, I'm sure they're total entitled scumbag college jock idiots. Sob, sob, I'm so distraught for all they've gone through. Not.

Friday, March 30, 2007 09:09 PM

yeah, re the pathetic B.D.

A writer a while back said of another writer, "Everything she's said is a lie, including the words 'a,' and 'the." The same could be applied to Ben Dover. He's totally full of shit and it's his fault for walking into his own trap. Bonehead.

What are you going to do when Salon starts banning you from posting? Beat up little girls in kindergarten? Gotta vent that rage somehow, eh?

Friday, March 30, 2007 09:14 PM

One last funny little incident...

Heh, I saw Ben's playa attempts in action a while back...immediately after viciously attacking some women, he asked another woman poster out on a date. Shockingly, she evaporated from sight, didn't respond...wow, Ben's sure got game. I can see how all these hot chicks must be throwing themselves at him.

Friday, March 30, 2007 09:33 PM

Salon could use some new writers

Most people will see this as more evidence to support even more stupid and hateful things. I didn't read much but it's obvious that the victim mentality is alive and well.

It gives idiot bloggers and others who feel they have so much to say even more stuff to say.

I can't say I have much sympathy for bloggers or other people who write nonsense.

Friday, March 30, 2007 11:31 PM

The large remainder of the students in the class were clearly destined to experience most of their sex in "lifelike rubber." There wa a commen thread of female hatred and anger running through the class.

This looks to me like an example of someone who is stating the actual nature of the situation without understanding the obvious meaning of their own accurate statment.

Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:22 AM

But to be honest, I'm sure they're total entitled scumbag college jock idiots. Sob, sob, I'm so distraught for all they've gone through. Not.

Do you think a social climate where people are encouraged to fabricate rape accusations against those they have personal, economic or cultural grievances against is good for real victims?

Saturday, March 31, 2007 06:25 AM

As I said

I realize that from a legal standpoint i should be concerned about false allegations. So I can and do, on some detached level. Personally, I couldn't care less about these arrogant pigs, from what I've read about them and from some pretty outrageous (but standard for entitled jocks, unfortunately) comments made about the woman. Incidentally, they could have gone to a strip club and avoided all this, but they are cheap pigs who probably decided they could drink more and hire some mentally unbalanced stripper for a lot less bucks...so they brought it on themselves, in the exact same way they and certain men on here would non-chalantly say a woman brings rape on herself by getting drunk at a bar.

I am going to take Ben Dover's heed and rather than cry "thread nanny" when he or someone else is offensive, I've decided to just go down to their level. I am quite capable of being civil, courteous, and listening to other points of view if the other side is the same. So if Ben's knee-jerk reaction is to dismiss a woman who disagrees with him as fat, ugly, a cat-lover, bitter, or whatever, then he will deserve to be made fun of in any manner whatsoever--if he can't stand the heat, he can get out of the kitchen. Plus, he actually is a proven liar, so there's not any need to distort things to make him look bad!

Saturday, March 31, 2007 08:11 AM

Ben Dover

Are you for real? Do you hate women that much? You sure seem to like to name call, which indicates a low intelligence and perhaps a very low level of education. I always tell my students to watch out for those folks how make outrageous claims on-line because most folks who tell stories about their so called lives are in fact fibbing most of the time, they fib about their looks, their level of education, the money they make, because who would ever know... Me thinks you too are a liar Mr. two MBA Dover....married or not with a girlfriend or not., with two identical degrees or not, who is a social liberal fiscal conservative or not or who really is one lonely guy whose own hatred of himself has infected his view of women. Because hatred is always about internal questions about an individuals own failures and projects those on-to others. My suggestion for you is to see a therapist, you are in real of need of help.

Saturday, March 31, 2007 08:24 AM

Death threats dog female blogger

Time for the Webmasters to increase the cost of advertising clicks, definite revenue maker here..............Soap Opera

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