I think there were

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2. VN's behavior in that thread

was not , I suspect, terribly surprising to any of us here in HOF who had communicated with him. (Two of the banned posters who made the worst comments were proved to be his socks). He kept the worst manifestations of his misogyny in check for most of his time on DU, but it was simmering beneath the surface the whole time. I think we know the kind of hostility toward women expressed by some men is reflective of a far deeper hatred and level of disturbance than is immediately apparent to the casual observer.

So you see peanut gallery, misogyny exists, even among so-called Democrats. Vashta Neranda, and whatever his prior user name was, is a perfect example of it.

His case also shows the link between denial and overt misogyny. He began by arguing he has never seen anything like that and ended by wishing a feminist would be raped and killed. Denial enables misogyny (and all forms of injustice) to continue unchecked because if one refuses to accept that something is a problem, there is no way to combat it.