This thread essentially turned into EG, Daradon, witty and others presenting thoughtful and respectful arguments. These arguments were largely ignored by the other side of the debate, who, for the most part, chose to focus solely on EG's avatar and how it objectifies men therefore her arguments are invalid.
This is (one of) the reasons why we still have sexism, racism, age-ism, any kind of -ism.
Entitled, white males, who feel that because they've experienced "reverse racism" or "reverse sexism" that they know exactly what it's like to deal with it on a daily basis. I'm sorry,
but unless you've been looked down on because you've not seen as an equal due to your gender, skin colour, whatever it may be - no, you really don't know what it's like.
I'm not going to debate whether or not the avatar was appropriate. But I'm going to point out that the avatars of scantily clad women, the comments such as "0/10 would not bang", and the general objectification of women on this site (by some) FAR outweighs ONE (or two if you count Peanut's protest avatar) avatar of a dude without a shirt.
I never entered the thread and quite frankly it could still be here and it wouldn't bother me at all. It's the fact that I and other women still have to deal with this kind of crap on a daily basis, only to have men turn around and feel they "know what it's like".
We need everyone on board if we're ever going to make a change.
I feel like a lot of people in this thread could benefit from watching this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iFl4qhBsE