Deni G—I agree with you that 99.9% of the time it is not worth responding to things like this. However I’ve known far too many otherwise smart, capable women who nearly shake in the face of remarks like his. Entire rows of mega-book outlets and oceans of magazine newsprint are devoted to boosting women’s self-esteem, which has more to do than just with the women, but also their children and the organizations they work with too. Bush Inc has institutionalized a NeoMisogyny. Ann Coulter’s books are purchased in bulk in the first week to place them on the NYT bestseller list, and with money from the likes of Richard Mellon Scaife, in order to promulgate the idea that women should never have been given the right to vote, etc. They are systematically unraveling the New Deal, the things that make this nation great, by well orchestrated plan. With 350 very organized interlinked GOP groups across the country with a directive to “wipe liberals off the face of this Earth.” I didn’t help a generation of women knock down barriers, and become one of 2% of women in a male field to see it reversed. This is a WOMAN’s site. I am not concerned about women like me, you, Suzanne C, Iris, Mugsy, et all—-we can handle ourselves. I’m concerned about the single mother of three earning a minimum wage, quaking in her boots about the job disappearing and her family winding up on the street. The safety nets are all but gone. I live in an urban setting, I know what’s going on and who’s impacted. Women who are even too timid to post here, who are afraid and alone, who visit this site to find a community, inspiration, resources. Women who across all socio-economic strata have endured rape, been beaten up, verbally and emotionally abused, who are trapped in any manner, who want to contribute…should be able to find the place that purports to be for them to lift them spiritually and be free of spewing anti-female hate that knocks them back down. There are lots of women who are extremely intimidated by someone holding out that “I am a shrink and know that all of you are worthless pieces of sh*t.” Read “The Chalice and The Blade.” Dr Troll is on the same energy-string as the Middle-Ages ‘expert’ who identified ‘witches’ for the Church. Innocent women who were then stripped, their hair shorne, brutally tortured, raped, and murdered by the millions, and by the church, who on their instruments of torture stamped “by the grace of God.” The women’s husbands and children were forced to watch, their estates and worldly goods were taken by the church to pay for their cost of their torture. Entire villages were emptied of women. Dr. Troll is energetically-linked to those men above, to the men in Salem who drowned witches, to the 100 ‘learned’ men who put Joan of Arc in the flames and set them back from her so she’d suffer more as thanks for saving their nation. They used the exact kind of words. We do not stop the Bushes, Cheneys, NeoCons, Hitlers, Torquemadas by ignoring them. We didn’t get civil rights by ignoring abuses. And if the founders of the site don’t wish to put a delete button to prevent hate speech against women [as exists even on very open-minded Craigslist] then I am literally wasting my time worth thousands of dollars to prevent it here so the vulnerable women on the other sides of their computer screens have a counterpoint to his words, a voice identifying what it is if they can’t name it, and someone saying this is not OK, and ladies you are not what this “Doctor” who repeatedly holds himself out as an expert on the subject says you are. Most of the time you are right Deni. Most of the time you ignore it. This is not one of those times. This guy is very abusive and very sick. When your house is invaded by a big rat it doesn’t go away by ignoring it. I have plenty to do, believe me, and keep chastising myself not to waste my time. We had a thread the other day on inclusion, on bringing in women who already feel so oppressed and disenfranchised.

Deni G, my sentiments exactly. The more resistance behavior we indulge, the more power we give it. I would disappoint myself if I had a reaction to him.