LJ Feminism: Serious Business!
In Feminist, melissataurus posts, presumbably about the amount of trivial whining (or "whinging", as she puts it):

A post on this community related to the "c-word" has garnered, at last count, over 200 comments. A post (yes, it happened to be mine) on the HPV vaccine received one comment.

Put in that oh-so-reasonable, not-at-all-smelling-of-"MEMEME" context, I'm sure the members of Feminist will respond in a reasoned, calm manner, perhaps many will agree with her!*

And they do... for all of six comments.

Contestant #7 - Masked Girl:I find your tone condescending. Although I do agree that women should get out there and be active, it's not your right to judge who is and who is not 'getting out of there'. Maybe some of us come to communities like this to "whinge" because we have no where else to voice our concerns (or this is the only place where we feel comfortable enough to do so). How do you know what members do with the rest of their time?

Harsh, but otherwise reasonable, right?

Melissataurus: You can find it condescending. But I can judge - I spend all day, every day working hard on feminist issues and I find it unbelievably, incredibly frustrating that I can get women to attend a share/drum circle but not write a letter to their representative. I do not find judgment threatening. I find it necessary to deciding the proper moral course.

In the words of amphibian23: i think you've got a point. but this cannot end too well.

See melissataurus respond to every comment that either calls her on the condecending tone or states "Maybe we like whining!" with some variation of "What I have to say is important or "it doesn't matter if I'm whining".

See melissataurus trot out her resume as a wank shield.

See the thread grow to 273 posts and counting (Irony: It's what's for dinner!)


And, as an extra added bonus, the wank spills over to anti_feminism, as dysgr8mystake cheers melissataurus on... from a safe distance.

"I usually don't do this, and I still plan to use this post as a jumping-off point to speak on a larger issue, but first I'd like to say; you don't know how many times I contemplated writing a post like that in the couple of years I was really active on feminist, although mostly at the end... and that was mostly because I was really sick of all the drama over, say, gendered baby clothes and people absolutely ignoring larger issues."

Gee... Wonder how the folks at anti_feminism will take this?

Shout out to smokedglass7429 to tipping me off to this wank.

*And by, "agree with her", I mean "gleefully tell her to STFU."