Lately a number of the rational members of FFL have been struggling with the question of how to deal with a couple of irrational members who seem monotopical in their desire to throw around the epithet "Misogynist!"
Some have chosen to ignore them, and everything they write. Others have chosen to engage them in rational discourse, as if they were actually rational. (The folly of the latter approach has been demonstrated over and over, because they just become more and more irrational, only louder.) My vote for the best way to deal with these people is simple and IMHO brilliant in its simplicity -- laugh at them. If you find them laughable, POINT IT OUT, hopefully in a way that will enable other rational posters on FFL to laugh at them, too. These two irrational women CAN'T HANDLE being laughed at. It drives them crazier than anything else that could possibly happen to them, and they become even MORE laughable than they were before as they sputter and pontificate and trot out their manufactured outrage. The more they sputter about being laughed at, the more people laugh at them. And that's the way things should be -- the closest thing to "Natural Law" I can imagine. Think about the recent election. For a while people were actually so shocked that McNumnuts chose Sarah Palin as his running mate that they were almost afraid to point out the obvious -- that she was an idiot in the true sense of the word, both ignorant and proud of it. Then along came Tina Fey. In one five-minute monologue she showed America what Sarah Palin was, by doing nothing more than *emulating her own behavior* and accentuating it to laughable levels. Bingo. Tina Fey, in a very real sense, pointed out the Empresses' lack of clothes (something that Sarah quickly tried to rectify using the RNC credit cards), and that she was an intellectual midget who was not even *remotely* qualified to be Vice-President, much less President. She was literally laughed out of contention. All this irrational bullshit about misogyny, propounded by our local version of Sarah Palin and her equally irrational but a bit (only a bit) smarter sidekick is based on *their* fear of being called what they are, and being laughed at because of what they are. So if you're going to deal with them at all, call them what they are often, and do it in as funny a way as possible, so that the maximum number of other people laugh at them, too. If they get uptight, so be it. It's *their* hot button getting pushed, not yours. You'll be laughing, and they'll be uptight, and if that ain't a reflection of "Natural Law" I don't know what is. And on another level, the more people whom you help to laugh at these women's irrationality, the more people you will be assisting on the road to rationality.
