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The key to understanding Amanda Marcotte and Pandagon is the book Queen bees and wannabes and the movie mean girls.
Amanda Marcotte, for whatever reason, and her coterie at Pandagon are stuck in their high school girl years.
Pandagon is a closed, insulated community wear group think is encouraged and enforced with gossip, insult, and invective. Sadly, most of these women then play the victim card in order to excuse their vicious behaviors and believe they are fighting a noble fight for women's liberation.
Discussion of any issue can only be done along the strictest and narrowest dimension, and extreme oppositional politics is the order of the day.
Amanda and her coterie are blind to the damage they are doing to the men and women that actually agree with much of what they have to say.
She is by far her own worst enemy.
