Daniel Craig on James Bond: “Let’s not forget he’s actually a misogynist.”

I do assume you're incapable of critical thinking, if you downvote a relevant comment without any feedback whatsoever. I will also assume your reading comprehension is low if you completely miss the point of my statement while replacing my words with different words and my tone with a different tone. Either that or you're deliberately misrepresenting my statement, in order to disrupt the potential valuable conversation, but even in that case you're still incapable of real critique and are resorting to disruptive behavior so as to dominate by force because you can't by finesse. A third option is that I haven't lived up to my obligation to represent my ideas in a comprehensive way. That's my responsibility. In any case I will continue my effort to more thoroughly and concisely understand and communicate. Not because I owe you an agreement, or an argument, but because I'm a philosopher and so long as I live I will inevitably think and write about this. I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to take part in the dialogue for the sake of developing truth in order to overcome adversity and liberate myself from ignorance and pointless strife. This is serious shit.

I suffer, I'm traumatized, I'm stressed, I'm a living being, I've seen the war. I am demanding an explanation from you, the only audience I have, because you've downvoted me without any real engagement. I'm challenging you to a duel. If I didn't call you out, would you even tell me what made you disagree with me? If I didn't offend you would you have even talked to me at all?

The downvote button isn't a disagree button, it's a shut down/shut out button. You've used it irresponsibly against me, I don't deserve it, and I called you out. You've already condescended to belittle me, I can't expect you not to continue putting me down and shutting me out. I expect you to keep doing it.

I can't expect you to be able to talk about what's really important, what I'd really rather talk about. We should be discussing types of misogyny and the meaning of "to womanize." But instead we have to go through all this bullshit because you're irreverent toward what you disagree with or don't understand and I'm not going to let you just press a button and erase me. Not this time, not today.

I didn't come here to fight over "just semantics," which is itself an intellectually lazy and dismissive thing to say. I'm not letting you get away with that. I came here for meaningful feedback on the idea of categorizing types of misogyny and analyzing behavior on the basis of these distinctive descriptions. I know not to expect too much from people online, or from one conversation out of a hundred, but this interaction of ours has really gotten under my skin in a new sort of way. It's when you replied with only "k." It's so infuriating and you know it, you do it on purpose just to be a little shit. Well little shits like you get called out sometimes, that's the risk. That "k" shit is lazy, banal, mundane, contemptuous, and destructive. It inspired me to hate you. Do you want to inspire people hate you? Do you want angry people to hate you? You must think you're invincible. Entitled and pretentious, privileged, anonymous.

I am protesting the alienation I experienced after sharing what I consider an important and relevant idea.

You accuse me of defending male supremacy and saying "James Bond isn't a misogynist," without any explanation, when in fact I never said that. You made an absurd parody of me in that mock rendition of our conversation. I know there's always a risk of being misunderstood, I have realistic expectations, but this experience has got me lowering the bar again.

Perhaps at some point I was unclear in my meaning, that is my responsibilty, it's my obligation to mature as a writer. The point is not to be perfect but to be present. Now if only you were capable of responding to my point, instead of resorting to belittling me on the basis of an absurd parody, maybe you could give me some constructive feedback instead of attempting my erasure. If only somebody else would've talked to me instead of you.

I believe in the goodness in people, but I know the meanness firsthand. You're snide.

If you don't have time to respond to whomever you're lazily downvoting then you don't have time to take part in this discussion and shouldn't be downvoting at all. I'm not just some male supremacist coming in here to debunk the idea that James Bond is misogynistic. I'm a theorist, I'm a philosopher, I value dialectics and logic, and this conversation means a lot to me.

Just because it means nothing to you doesn't mean you should just erase it. That's not what the downvote button is for. Someone else might come along and be able to understand it better than you can.

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