I just want to throw out a huge pile of thanks at the entire mod team.
This is not a fun debate to be having for either side, and it's ugly at the moment, but this is progress. The mod team has done a fantastic job of explaining their position (far more times than is necessary, had people just read the actual OP and attempted some form of reading comprehension), and they do a fantastic job of moderating this forum on a daily basis.
This is really ugly right now, there are a lot of tempers flaring and a lot of people who are upset. When it all calms down and settles--this forum doesn't change dramatically, at least that's my goal in this argument. We're short one thread full of girly pictures, yes, but once all this YLYL stuff falls off the first page, eventually this whole forum goes back to normal--only maybe now people think twice before saying something offensive.
If you really look at what's being said on the pro-feminism side, that is all we've been asking for all along.
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