I'm aware of the spate of woman kills someone stories in GD recently

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9. The reply? "Sorry if you find a lot of people disagreeing with you objectionable ..."

"Open discussion is the best way to get round this ..."

"I didn't think you wanted to make this about gender ..."

"But I'm trying to discuss this - do you want no discussion?"

"But this is part of the same topic, it is about violence in relationships,"

When several try attacking you,

"But I thought we were supposed to be the bullies ..."

"Like myself I see you have talked about this with your friends ..."

On the other hand my response is different; there is my personal response and a serious serious response. Personally my response is, a great big grin - poor little mites, their bitter tears are a real taste sensation.

But a serious response is that they accuse posters in this group of ganging up anyway and they rely on that sort of accusation to drive people with empathy away from discussion. As noted above it creates an apparent acceptance of their ideas. Check my link in post #4 to Free Thought Blogs