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Originally posted by dzrose93
Thank you, valkyrie, for saying EXACTLY what I was thinking! Quite honestly, I find it disturbing that there are women on this board who have stuck up for UF_Pike. In my opinion, that's kind of like a Jewish person sticking up for Hitler.  Very, very disturbing. 
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Uh...no actually, it is not the same AT ALL. UF_Pike did not orchestrate the genocide of millions. All he did was ruffle some feathers on GC. Not the best comparison ever.
As a woman who "stuck up for" UF_Pike, I think that both you and Valkyrie have blown it out of proportion. I am not gonna picket GC over him being banned, but I just don't think that the content of his posts warranted such an action. And I HARDLY think that disagreeing with UF_Pike being banned makes me less of a woman. His posts were misogynistic. And? I am not advocating the downfall of women. I am simply saying that it was unfair to ban a member of GC based on more-or-less the hypersensitivity of some other members.
I have read MANY more offensive posts on GC, heck, just mosey over to Greek Life where right now some of you all are engaged in a debate about homosexuals in Greekdom. Some of those posts (not necessarily made by anyone on this thread), have been unapologetically OFFENSIVE. No one is screaming for those posters to be banned. I have read more than a few profanity-laced, latently offensive posts here on chit chat. The difference is that I am fairly thick-skinned. If someone says something that I don't like, I am not going to lose sleep over it. If I disagree, I may voice my opinion, but I am not going to let it ruin my day.
Lighten up people. If you don't want to ignore him, fine. If you want to respond to him, fine. But the results are no one's fault but your OWN...KNOWING that he came SOLELY to get a rise out folks and y'all fed into it. And if you are honest, there are posters on GC that have been MORE abrasive than UF_Pike, and hey, most of them are still here.