This is the sort of thing that really loses you the moral high ground. From Twisty on Dr. B's blog:
Chick blames patriarchy. Dude perceives chick speaking mind, believes life to be in danger. Dude would ordinarily attempt control of mind-speaking chick via symbolic rape à la classic “you just need a good fuck” response, but remembers new kind of snappy put-down he's been seeing on dude-centric blogs with erection-shaped logos written by date-rapist college sophomores. Dude attempts to neutralize dangerous chick threat by sardonically impugning chick's post as parody.
Sorry, but what? Exactly which blogs are written by confirmed date rapists? And how do we know commentors who go after feminists, no matter how annoying their approach may be, are taking orders from some central site filled with phallus-obsessed sexual harassers?
You want to go after chauvinistic guys for stereotyping/demeaning women and being general assholes, get to it. But assuming worse stereotypes about them than they ever said about you (the target of the post seems to have ineptly compared a feminist's article to a postmodernist parody from a few years back) pretty thoroughly demolishes your moral high ground. There are no shortage of antifeminist dicks out there, trust me, I've got a few running around my comment threads. But nor are they all members of some international patriarchal conspiracy run by a fraternal order of date rapists, and hinting otherwise just makes you look bad.
