acknowledge that others might have more data; that there's a disparity between your and their knowledge here? I've had some time to think about this and you are correct. This isn't "guilt by association" -- the whole point of the site is to be a font of misogyny and anti-feminism. Being there, posting there, is a misogynistic act (although not necessarily because the guy who runs it is an avowed misogynist). It is a space FOR misogyny. I get that now. My apologies for the bad-faith argument on my part. She chose AVfM as her writing venue, a community which is explicitly dedicated to misogyny and antifeminism, much like FreeThoughtBlogs is dedicated to freethought. There is some information that one can glean simply from authorship on a commonly themed blog network. FreeThoughtBloggers are atheists. Writers for Cat Fancy like cats. AVfM writers are antifeminist and hold misogynistic views. If they weren't, respectively, they would write somewhere else. The issues that you bring up with skepticism/the Catholic Church/Republicans are irrelevant because, unlike those groups, AVfM has no other purpose. I bring up Elam only to illustrate the founding views of this community. Whether Nurdy agrees specifically with Elam on the legalization of rape is beside the point. There is a point at which you do not get to share a stage with someone without taint, because sharing that stage is an implicit approval. We shouldn't call someone "a misogynist" for the same reason we shouldn't call someone "a racist" -- because