Quote: AJGO @ November 16 2012, 2:21 PM GMTIt really has. I've been posting less and less cos it's just tiring seeing posts about on every blimmin thread, every blimmin day.
Women not liking feeling like they've stumbled into a rapey lair whenever they want to read about comedy or catch up with their online mates isn't really 'voices in the wilderness', especially when you, as a man, post this:
Boys may be boys, but none of the women, or men, on here mind banter, or a joke even if it's crude, but this creeping normalisation is getting a bit uncomfortably Zimbardo-esque. If the boys being boys wouldn't make these comments in the pub in a group of mixed gender friends- and I think the majority on here would be (and are, in my experience) a bit more circumspect and well-mannered- then they should ask themselves if what they're about to post is funny, relevant, or necessary enough to risk making themselves look genuinely dodgy.
Damnit, now I've also said cum.
Lots of posts are funny, or if not to someone's liking at least viewable as intended to be self-mocking or purposefully juvenile. No-one wants to see anyone censored, or feeling they can't write what they like. Just a bit of remembering that other people can actually see what you've (general 'you', not sooty 'you') written would be nice.
A fiver says Shandy genuinely licked her phone, just to see.
The points you make are fair, but as I said if you are appealing to their better judgement it may not work. Sooty is right, post more and change the tone. By the way I was in no way condoning that kind of post, just saying I don't see how you can stop it without censorship.