this was typical - it wasn't just people who disagreed, but people who had sensible points or challenged the accuracy of the articles, basic things like that. All branded sexism and deleted.
Eventually they ran a special article asking for BTL comments on how to deal with disagreeing comments on feminism articles To which the reply was, stop moderating out reasonable disagreement as bigoted. They deleted those and stopped opening feminist articles for comment.
All this has something to do with where the Guardian is today.
I think I have a memory of that, but was blocked from posting.
I know now it seems silly, but I was genuinely taken aback. After all this was the Guardian, supposedly full of advanced thinkers, that had let Mary Stott start what was effectively the first online meet up for frustrated women. Had it been the DM or the Telegraph it wouldn't have been a great shock.
So in a way it was a real learning curve about just how deeply entrenched male attitudes towards women are. Clearly 70s Women's Liberation had had no impact on them whatsoever.
And is it any wonder that based on their absolute misogyny and sexism they were so open to the next stage of the backlash against women. TRAs.
Echoed of course by the current state of the Labour Party and women get more acknowledgement from the Tories.