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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]seaglass
(8,171 posts)to a dog's. Your tale is biased but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it is due to ignorance not purposeful.
The bottom line is that there is some conflict between personalities and that conflict is based on disagreements about ideas and how people interact when they disagree. There is some thinking the worst of each other, misinterpretation of what others are saying/have said deliberately and not and some actual nasty stuff that has been said. There is no doubt that the SI thread was started to stir shit.
But I am ever hopeful that something positive will come out of this. A good number of DUers recognized that posting T&A threads in GD helped to create a hostile environment on DU for women. A number of posters who did not recommend that thread and disagree about objectification have recognized within individual posts that the thread was not appropriate for GD. Skinner locked one and EarlG locked another related to this topic. So maybe even DUers who disagree that objectification is a thing or an important thing will refrain from posting T&A in GD in the future because while they may disagree, they are listening. Or maybe they won't do it because they don't want a locked thread, a hide or a week's worth of threads about the topic.