This is the big lie that I have seen bandied about at particular political sites for several years now. I have been fascinated in a morbid way the double speak has turned notions of social justice into a pejorative. It's downright Orwellian.
That is precisely why people do it. While you may be at work, home, or someplace you feel is private, this forum is a public forum. The powers that be here work hard to gate the community but that is to ward off bots, trolls, and the like not to keep the public out.
As such this is a powerful place to share ideas and knowledge. And this notion that it is inconsequential is flat wrong as the behavior of the powers that be in the wider world speak a different tune. It's why companies and governments dictate policy and rhetoric by social media as much as they do by any other individual other than shareholder, the last 3 major elections were heavily influenced by online behavior, and various organizations plan rallies and meeting around bulletin forums just like this.
While I think this place's owner would have kittens should anyone try that last bit around here the fact remains that you are not going to be able to talk to dozens or hundreds of unique people and have them all listen to you at your job, watering hole, gym, home or anywhere else available to most Americans. It's why companies and nation states spend so much time and effort on bots and trolls to dictate narrative.
As for what goes on in public meetings of shareholders and city councils or stadiums full of sports fans this type of exchange is pretty tame.
And as for your false equivalence of the treatment men, I have seen people call for the job of Kelsey Charles, her predecessor whose name eludes me, Taylor Stern, and now Ambar Garcia. What I have not seen are similar action towards Broaddus, Spanola, Phillips, Eatman, Helman, Newton, Ellis, Sullivan, Kavner, or any other man over at DC.com. Sunni the cheerleader used to get a pass but she never spoke her mind unless pressed. It is what it is as are the demographics of this place.
