when you engage with the trolls

[MitchiestInge]

. . . is it a personal thing (actually engaging emotionally) or are you communicating with a wider, more silent audience or are there other motivations?

I can't work out why more people don't ignore them, but every now and then the exchanges are unintentionally funny or interesting - although mostly it gets very dull very quickly. Wondering what's in it for them too.

What did he do wrong? Surely a feminist should agree that men and women shouldn't hit each other, there's no special "you can't hit girls" rule

There is no initiation ceremony here. Most folks hang around for a while, make the odd post about winter fashion or blocked toilets or summat. Then once they have got a feel for the place, they find some topics that they are drawn to, and post in them as a bit of a regular. They make a few MN pals, exchange some pleasantries. Yunno that sort of thing - it isn't a rule or anything, but most people naturally abide by these little niceties of netiquette. The advantage being that they don't get treated with suspicion when they multipost on controversial threads.

HTH

At the risk of sounding a bit of a wuss, I actually feel a bit sorry for RejectofAllah.

He's obviously fucked up and lashing out and isn't intelligent enough to work out a better solution than Blame All Women.

It must be awful to be trapped in such a prison of unhappiness, with no way of getting out.

Insight is a miraculous wonderful thing and he's probably not going to get any of it.

My pity however, is tempered by his very obvious danger to women. A man who genuinely doesn't want women in his life, just ignores them and that's that. A man who obsessively posts about not wanting them in his life, is probably extremely dangerous to them.

Viz the OP, I'm partly of the LRD view - it's sometimes difficult to spot trolls and you want to give people the benefit of the doubt - and partly of the "for the benefit of lurkers" viewpoint. Trolls often post stuff which other people believe, even though theyr'e not comfortable believing it and refuting it and giving reasons for that refuting, may be useful to other people.

I really do find it tiresome that any time a man comes into a discussion/conversation/space where there are mostly or only women, he immediately has to make it All About Him.

well solIdgoldbrass, you come into patriarchy space and make it about you. Want equality? You have to earn it

Sorry I meant to say earlier, yy to Dittany's assertion that we're lucky to have SGB on here to pull down the whiney MRA's pants robustly expose the absurdity of the MRA trolls on here.

Am ever so slightly confused about Edd's asserton that SGB is coming into a patriarchy space. Dream on Edd, the trolling hasn't been that successful yet. But interesting that you're getting ahead of yourself... is that your intention then? That the MN feminist board becomes a "patriarchy space"? Because there aren't enough of them in the world...

Also loving SGB's style