Offputting sexist titles on the Latest Discussions column: proposal

Well, I would ask you to try thinking about what it must be like as a woman to see threads like that being given such prominence.

You do realise there is a thread like that about men though? Why have you not mentioned that one?

I actually thought that was just as crap, at least in terms of cheapening the appearance of TSR to a new user. I'm not however seeking to remove such threads, merely to take them off the Latest Discussions column.

Exploiting phoney liberalism in the name of commercial profit to make crude sexist remarks in public isn't exactly a great champion for the cause of anti-censorship.

But you are pro-censorship. Plus you're ignoring the fact that there's a thread entitled 'If you could bang any guy senseless who would it be?':

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2542241

Also, blanket banning all chat threads would be a poor idea.

Agreed, It can be pretty unnerving as a woman on TSR, and **** like that doesn't help.

OP needs a dictionary for Christmas.

It'd be my privilege as a male to buy one for you.

That's the beautiful irony in all this. OP is being unknowingly sexist in one direction in a poor attempt to prove sexism in the other direction.

Why bother to engage with people like this at all? Leave them to their crude threads and just ignore or report them if they turn up on an interesting thread - that's what most people do.

Not sure if you read my OP? I'm not asking for anything to be banned (at least, not in this thread.) I'm asking for the Latest Discussion column that appears on the front page for every new and existing user to exclude Chat as it cheapens the site and makes it look like a centre of disgusting woman-hating and sexism.

How is it unnerving? I haven't seen anything that would suggest that women have a particularly hard time on TSR apart from the blatant trolls who can be ignored and sarcastic sexist comments on relevant threads, but made in jest.

I actually don't have a problem with that thread title

OP needs a dictionary for Christmas.

It'd be my privilege as a male to buy one for you.



That's the beautiful irony in all this. OP is being unknowingly sexist in one direction in a poor attempt to prove sexism in the other direction.

I wish Fullofsurprises was a troll but sadly this is what the far left has become...It's particularly embarrassing to see idiots like this on "my side" as I consider myself a left-leaner.

Some women have become so familiar with this type of abusive and sexually demeaning material that it can get to seem 'normal' and 'acceptable', but that doesn't make it so. Others are too intimidated to respond or fight it. Just look at all the abusive remarks directed against me in this very thread for having the cheek, not to ask for a ban, but just to ask for it not to be on the front page.

The reaction proves my point.

Some women have become so familiar with this type of abusive and sexually demeaning material that it can get to seem 'normal' and 'acceptable', but that doesn't make it so. Others are too intimidated to respond or fight it. Just look at all the abusive remarks directed against me in this very thread for having the cheek, not to ask for a ban, but just to ask for it not to be on the front page.

The reaction proves my point.

Are you talking about my use of the word 'sexist'? Of course it's sexist, the thread title implies women are purely sexual objects to be used, which is absolutely classic sexism.

Are you talking about my use of the word 'sexist'? Of course it's sexist, the thread title implies women are purely sexual objects to be used, which is absolutely classic sexism.

That's still censorship. The site has already cheapened itself with pathetic FIFA association rules for warning points and removing negative rep. Taking away certain threads from appearing on the latest discussion column would ruin TSR further.

And you're ignoring the fact that there is an equivalent thread aimed towards women about men, as I and other users have mentioned.