[lisarea]

Yeah, the reason I single out II is that it's more politically liberal than most places, online or real life. But it suffers the same problems as most forums do, particularly large ones. People skim and oversimplify, not just in terms of discourse itself, but it terms of applying convenient labels and stereotypes. Black and white. Pro and con. Shit like that.

I guess it kind of did surprise me, though, how people capable of discussing such normally divisive issues as religion and economics and such aren't even capable of recognizing even the slightest nuance in the subject of male female equality. It seems a particularly egregious blind spot.