Divorce Support Forums: Misandry is the message

I've told you before that I agree with most of your message but I disagree strongly with your methods. I don't have to have the extremist website urls to know where you get a lot of this talk from, just from your language. It's good, though, to see that you do know the meaning of properly written text "(sic)". Now, I've tried before to explain the problem of using acronyms that are not in common usage on a particular website. ... oh, for example, everything I see someone using the acronym "bf", my first thought is that they're talking about a black female, because that's the context in which I most often see that particular acronym.

Most websites have thier own acronyms... and the supreme court has SCOTUS... but that's mostly confined to the people who are on the supreme court, or blogging about it. That is not an acronym of common usage here on this website or on most of the UN-extremist lawyer websites (though I have no doubt that some lawyers who prefer to be politicians and seek publicity through extremist rhetoric might use that term.)

Most lawyers/paralegals will talk about it in terms of the supreme court... the US supreme ct... or in very casual moments, I've heard it referred to as "the supremes" (which often also refers to the collective persons who sit on that bench as well as the origin of hte opinions that come off of it). And legal writing will NEVER use the acronym that you are so fond of.

And VAWA and VAWA II... also not acronyms of common usage. More commonly used in blogs and extremist websites and editorials than in general publications.

You know what "sic" is... so you SHOULD know that whenever you use an acronym that is NOT of common usage in a particular purpose, that you need to not just spout it all over, but rather you need to completely name the item, and THEN the acronym that you intend to use.

The exception is if you're in a place, such as here, where certain acronyms ARE in common usage, such as stbx, xMIL, bf & the like. To assume that people here are going to hear you talk about the supreme court decisions with terms like SCOTUS and understnad that you're talking about an effen SC DECISION, for god's sake, well... it makes you sound like you've spent way too much time reading editorials and blogs. You'd fare no better by coming on here and talking about femi-nazis. Though the "femi-nazi" reference would clearly be traceable to an identifiable source because it's got one clear and infamous origin.

As much as I also believe that feminists have become extreme in a scary, I will not be caught using the word "femi-nazi" except in VERY limited circumstances (alone with my hsuband, maybe) because it diminishes the credibility of my opinion to use that term as if it's a real commonly used term.

As I have said several times, I often agree with your message, but your style of communication is simply not credible as an unbiased presentation.

I worry that your methods are a turnoff to the people on the fence or who are not already informed on these matters.

I've answered your questions about this over & over again & then you come back and ask again. The reason I don't continue to respond usually is that ... well, at some point, it's not worth my time. You seem to be unable to handle even the limited criticism of your methods as I have given. Frankly, that's probably part of the problem. Extremists rarely allow for gray areas, rarely admit that maybe they could improve one or two things about their methods, are rarely willing to tweak their presentations. This is why they'll never win, (sometimes unfortunately), because they simply can't take SIMPLE comments like mine which are MERE suggestions to edit your commentary on these issues so that they might be more widely understood and accepted.

A good persuasive writer is usually willing to take an edit or two. I've tried go suggest a few to you, and you repeatedly, almost rudely, defend your presentation rather than simply consider the suggested edits.

The tendency to attack all critique (including simple little critiques on a few language issues) is another clear method used by extremists & bloggers.