The reader's editor on… the online abuse that follows any article on women's issues

[liberalhistorian]

8. The WATM phenomenon

is, sad to say, also quite prevalent right here on DU. Just try starting any thread trying to specifically discuss sexism and how entrenched it still is, or any other women's rights issue (including the prevalence of rape and violence against women, and the recent attempts to relax laws against them) and you get a cacophony of bleating about how men are being ignored, or what I call the "benevolent" concerns of "why aren't we talking about other "isms" as well, or even those who claim that women have it a lot better than they think the do and they don't get why men may be worse off.

Of course, then there are those here who call child support "male enslavement", or who even try to either downplay rape or even re-define it, etc. Yes, indeed, the WATM whiners are here also, and in greater numbers than should be found on a liberal, progressive site. And those numbers should be zero.