A few thoughts on respect

One of the most curious aspects in the behaviour of certain male members here is the casual manner with which they use words such as "slut", "bitch" and "whore" when referring to their female colleagues, as though totally divorced from the wider social dimension. It is almost as though they were abandoned as infants in a distant forest and left to grow up without any grasp of the consequences of their own vocabulary or ideology.

I've written before about the fact that, despite this being a site dedicated to pornography, we must not turn a blind eye to anyone treating other members here with anything less than the respect they deserve. This applies in particular to women, since they face both the underlying sexism of modern society and the moralistic approbation heaped upon any of their gender who dares express even the scantiest interest in one of humanity's oldest fiction-forms.

This viewpoint is scarcely revolutionary; indeed, It is at its very core the simplest expression of modern manners. However, the fact that it still requires to be stated so categorically shows how far we still have to go before achieving a truly balanced society.