I have no idea where you acquired this opinion. Is this about my simile about fine china and paper plates? Allow me then to explain: Fine china represents something that is valuable and treated with care, making sure that your actions don't damage it because it is irreplaceable. Paper plates are something you use once and throw away, without the need or desire to care what that does to the plate. The meaning of the simile was the exact opposite of what you claim. It means that each woman is an irreplaceable individual that should be treated with care, not as an object to be disposed of whenever it is convenient.
Nice try, but if you're going to mansplain your own poor use of language to a woman that you are comparing to objects: you are using a metaphor. You did not say that women are *like* fine china (a simile), you asserted the we all *are* fine china. Neither of which are true.
Metaphor is the literal function of using an *object* to symbolize a subject or concept. And there is no place, ever, to insist that women *are* an object. Especially when you cannot experience what it is like to be the subject that you are, literally, by definition, objectifying (women). That is to say: if women want to use metaphor to describe themselves, they get to. You do not. Period.
Additionally, you are not treating the women here that you claim to care so much about with anything remotely close to respect, consideration, or care at all. You are telling us to cover up because YOU don't like it. No consideration what so ever for our choices, desires, reasons, or autonomyânone of which we owe to you. You are literally treating us as the paper plates you describe: all the same, and disposable. The fact that you keep dismissing my statements because they aren't "classy" enough for you means that I'm right. If you TRULY believed that all women deserved the care you claim they do, you would not speak to me , or any of us, in the way that you have. Your OP would not even exist. This is a fact, none of your purple-faced mansplaining backpedaling cowpie will change it.
Fair point, but if by "contribute" you mean placing my personal details and pictures on a public forum, then I disagree.
Sure. Of course. You don't owe anyone photos of yourself. And you are not required to enjoy the ones that exist here. But you certainly have no moral standing to then come to this place and complain about the pictures that exist and shame the people who created themâwhich as been pointed out, you single out women, not the men or non-binary folks here who also choose to celebrate their bodies as *they* choose.
It's called autonomy. Clearly something you are well aware applies to you, but you consciously choose to conditionally revoke from others as if you have any place to. You do not. Especially in a community you have chosen to wag your finger at.
Hence my opinion that they should not be placing their pictures or information on a public website. And if they felt pressured into doing so, they should reconsider, as there are people like me out there that don't require that in order to consider them someone of worth.
And yet! See above. You do not see us of worth. At all. And you felt you had the place to *complain* about the content here? If people "shouldn't" be posting pictures... again, why are you looking at them?
You don't know if I am a woman or not, only what I claim to be in my profile.
You assert that you are "a gentleman" and that you are seeking "a female friend." Your profile, language, and predictable doubling-down of everything indicate you are in fact, male. Other non-male folk don't say we want "a male friend" because we all know what that means. You want "one" friend... to confide in. And yet you don't want to be honest about who you are? That's not friendship.
I emphatically do not "highly disapprove" of anyone doing anything they enjoy, as long as it does not harm others. I apologize if I didn't make that clear enough in the OP. I thought I had.
Yet here you are, being harmful. And insisting you're not when the people you're harming say that you are. So yes, it's on purpose. That's a you problem.
I did not intend to attack or judge anyone...
I have no problem with anyone posting pics of themselves if they enjoy that, and as long as it hurts no one else. IF you feel pressured to do so, please don't give into that.
You cannot both say that you require "sexual attraction" to create a friendship (another sign you're male: women know we don't need sexual attraction to be friends with anyone) then say you don't need photos to establish that. If anyone does feel pressured to share pics, that's not your problem or place to correct it.
TL;DR: you want to be secretive, insist you are not who you say you are, have "a female friend" to carry your emotional load that you are also sexually attract