There are far worse things on the Internet, although I think he shouldn't have made such a post unless it was someone with whom he bantered before, approaching a new poster who can take insult in such manner is a bit inconsiderate. I think it's nothing bad really, and the stuff we see on this forum is nowhere as toxic as some other places, someone on the league told me my mother should die of cancer and my dads contraception failed, do I go on to make a post about how toxic the lol community is on their forums? No, I just brush it off as an extreme case of retardation, i think you should too, especially with so many people on here doing one post hit and run jokes.

Also to others wtf for having a mod just because it's a she? And that's not sexist at all? It should be an established member of the community and sex shouldn't be relevant in the slightest.

Was that the best example of sexism you could find, OP? If so, then I feel you're really over-sensitive because all sexist jokes aren't automatically offensive. That joke by Galaki clearly didn't make any ridicule of you as a thread maker. It was just an innocent joke.

One could argue though that his post somewhat contributed to diminish the weight and impact of your topic to a little degree, but that's got nothing to with the sexist nature of the joke, but it's a problem with all off-topic posts posted early in a thread. It irritates me a lot when I make a thread, putting lots of time and energy creating it and the first few posts are short one-liners that aren't specifically addressing anything I wrote. I would guess others feel the same. But that's an entirely different issue than sexism and other forms of discrimination, and it also can't be avoided as it's not a formal breaking of rules.

Also, there's such a thing as proportions. If this site actually was flooded by sexist jokes (it isn't), even just innocent ones, then it would/could be an issue, but something up to the moderator's general judgement on how to handle.

The rule states that insults on a person's sex are not allowed. That's pretty cut and dry to me.

I don't understand why being offensive is more important that respect for others. When someone is offended the offending party should apologize for a misunderstanding. If they don't that it was an intentional offense.

I'm also tired of the 1st Amendment being used as some kind of "I get to be as big a jerk as I want and there's nothing you can do about it" right. That's not the reason for the 1st Amendment and it's certainly not in the spirit of community either. Getting to say what you believe is different than getting to be as offensive as you want and the right to do something doesn't make it right to do.

How in the world could that be an insult on a person's sex? He said "I was wondering why your PMS making SQL error." Saying "women suck at driving" is an insult, this isn't.

Ask a woman why reducing their feelings to a PMS episode is demeaning.

I don't even get the joke, but that's not the point. The OP doesn't even consider this case the worst offender, it just is the last straw for her.

I have to admit that I posted a pretty raunchy post about a female member on this site. I was joking but I could see how I crossed the line. I believe jaywood called me out on it. Anyways the "joke" would have been more bearable if everyone knew of my Asian fetish and that I have an Asian girlfriend. At least I didn't tell anyone about the secret girl thread on VGC. Oops... Tempted to tell period joke...

That's your problem, you don't get the joke. He didn't reduce her feelings to PMS. The joke was about her PMS having a sending error which was just a stupid play on words.

It's too bad that happens.

In all honestly I never really think that much about someone's gender on here. I know guys have girl avatars and visa-versa. It is the personalty that makes them interesting.

I know sometime people are just jerks, and sometime they really don't know any better.

I think the FFXIII thread ended fine because at the end I was the only user that received offenses in that thread... nobody else was offended... just some users were exalted... if I was a report man at least two guys would be banned in that thread but like @pezus said to me sometime that I have to learn with all these bans

In any case I was banned five or six times only this year and just one time I offended someone.