Actually, I voted for Hillary in 2008 and look forward very much to doing so *twice* in 2016.

Trying to be constructive here, since apparently in practice we’re part of the same political coalition (which if you’re in it, I assume you’ll admit is not entirely made up of whiners, etc.):

Maybe the really important point of difference I had with your response was your use of “everyone" (IIRC) in your first sentence, when in fact the author was (again, IIRC) expressing concern about what people she/they *knew personally* might be doing in her/their absence.

That is, if you’d read the original article as I did, you wouldn’t have felt the need to write such an unpleasant response, since its author didn’t make the explicit demands on you that you seem to have assumed / perceived.

What we feel we can hope for from our personal acquaintances, who share our outlook on many issues and, face-to-face, agree on specifics that matter more to us than to them, is not to be equated with what we consider our public due, simply by the right of shared humanity.

(Parallel case that I feel pretty confident applies to you: I won’t speculate whether you’ve ever felt concern about women of your acquaintance exempting you from stereotypes of men-as-rapists… since I don’t need to speculate, I feel secure making this assumption about your experience.

(Let me just say that you may be rude, but I hope and semi-trust you’re not a rapist. At the same time, I also assume that when you read about rape-in-general, or about specific rapes or other sexual assaults in which you were in no way involved, you don’t think, “This is about male violence against women, therefore I must defend myself, since it’s my right and duty as a man to be violent towards [my] women.” That is: in this common situation, you don’t confuse specific with general rhetoric.)

To other readers: he’s nowhere near me, and the rhetoric of his attack on me implies the opposite — I’m a toddler, not an object of sexualized violence — so I feel more than comfortable being charitable. Dude may be a whiner himself, DK, but there are much worse things.

I’ll just let go all the rest of that stuff you wrote, since after all I called you a Trump supporter.

My main motivation wasn’t a specific conviction about this particular version of trans / queer / non-binary identity & rights. It was a much simpler sense that men who are rude to non-men online, without specific provocation, should be called out.

Done & done.