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by ultramundane828 4598 days ago
I don't see this as inflammatory or offensive. However, I do have a separate problem.

It reads like a rebuttal, but has no parent comment. It makes me feel like you're speaking to a comment no one made. Derail complete.

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I agree, I don't often feel I need to stick my oar in with type of thing, but I wish I had enough karma to down vote this from being the top comment. It is a first class derailment.

I really don't see what the parent can take as offensive.

Men have been dressing up as over-exaggerated caricatures of women for years (going back to Shakespeare and beyond), it's called pantomime. Women do the same and men don't get upset. Maybe it's a UK thing that doesn't translate well to other cultures.

This is being "offended" for the sake of being offended.

It was several comments, that's why. Maybe I should have chosen one of them? Didn't think it would be confusing, sorry.

Edit: Reading timje's edit, I think I should have chosen that comment as parent.