Please follow these guidelines when posting a comment. Failure to attend to the guidelines will result in a comment that will not be posted.
-Be polite. Manage your tone. A condescending, scornful, or mocking tone, will result in me failing to read the rest of your comment, which in turn will mean it will never get posted.
This counts for how you speak to other people in the comments as well as how you address me.
-Exception to the above rule: Calling me, or another commenter, out on my/hir privilege. It is your right to get as angry as you like in your tone if what I said sounds racist, homophobic, etc. (And no, there is no such thing as "female privilege".)
-Anecdotal evidence means nothing here. Refrain from using it. This includes 'what my girlfriend thinks' or 'my gay best friend doesn't mind (insert thing here)'.
-I am not interested in arguing the validity of feminism. If you can't get behind the liberation of women, don't post. If you post anyway, prepare to be ignored utterly.
-Keep your posts brief. Two decent sized paragraphs is all I will allow.
-Proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, and syntax will be greatly appreciated. However, if it's beyond your capabilities, that's fine, too.
-No ableism, classism, ageism, sizeism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, et cetera. If I sense that you unintentionally slip an -ist or -phobic comment while meaning well, I will point it out to you, but if it is blatant and unapologetic, your comment will be ignored.
-Please do not try to proselytize. I am not interested in being saved. In addition, keep the religious fervor to a minimum.
-I won't allow epithets. Just a few examples: F*g, c*nt, tr*nny, d*ke. It's all right to self-identify as something, but not to apply a term to someone else.
-For posts that contain troubling material, put "Trigger Warning" at the top of the post as obviously as possible, then skip a few paragraphs down before continuing to write. Talking about child abuse, spousal abuse, psychiatric abuse, rape, racism, transphobia, etc., all of these things can be triggering. Be as cautious as possible. And if it's not exactly necessary to the conversation at hand, please refrain from talking about it at all. It's okay to talk about things that have happened to you with the proper trigger warnings.
