toujours_nigel: Greek, red-figure Rhea (Default)
[personal profile] toujours_nigel
Well, I always knew it was rampant, but I've managed through a combination of thick skin and micro-groups to avoid stumbling across the worst of it (I do sometimes go looking/follow links but that's different). It makes one think one's immune, and then you happen across something like:
Well, you may be right, and perhaps I'm displaying West European prejudice, because I'd probably find this argument more convincing if it was India...

re: kidnapping and the dangers of following the kidnapper to a foreign country where one doesn't know the language and can't vote. The canonical country is Switzerland, where, as people have pointed out in-discussion, women didn't at the time have the vote, just to start with.

In India, women had the vote in 1947, which was when men got the vote.

I'm not saying the situation wasn't bad in India then, in fact it's rather awful now, but honestly, this sort of thing makes my skin crawl.


In other news, my sister had her surgery early today and is groggy and pissed off, but okay. Thanks for all the good wishes. ♥

Date: 2015-04-10 06:53 pm (UTC)
lilliburlero: an opium poppy head leaking resin, the caption "equality!" (equality)
From: [personal profile] lilliburlero
OI, TRENNELS, NO! Urgh. My apologies: I really should've called down the mods straight away on that one.

Best wishes to your sister: hope she feels better soon.

Date: 2015-04-11 08:06 am (UTC)
lilliburlero: an opium poppy head leaking resin, the caption "equality!" (equality)
From: [personal profile] lilliburlero
The 'I'm not Maybe I'm racist but [racism]' formulation is characteristic, I feel. I've given this person the benefit of the doubt in the past, too.

Good luck & best wishes for your sister's recovery.

Date: 2015-04-10 08:13 pm (UTC)
oonaseckar: bambi (Default)
From: [personal profile] oonaseckar
Glad to hear about your sister, wishing her a speedy recovery. Fandom is a minefield!

Date: 2015-04-10 09:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] greerwatson
Ignorance is bliss—for the idiot in question. Not so much for everyone else, eh?

Glad to hear your sister is going to be okay.

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