Yet, the comment section seemed more concerned with the legal battles of free speech, as well as double standards concerning men and women. Many comments felt the article was overreacting, that it was so big deal and that the girls just needed to suck it up and move on. Others claimed the university should take the signs down and that it promotes rape culture.
These comments all seek to convince the other readers that their opinion is right and to color the view of these readers. It seems the commenters are only people who feel very strongly about the subject, mainly free speech activists and feminists who are passionate about their point of view.
While many comments seemed to understand what they were talking about, quite a few others were filled with loaded words, and very biased language. Often times they resorted to insults of the other commenters, which definitely brought down their reliability. Others still just seemed to want to complain about the government and society with no real facts.
It felt like everyone in the comments section was just yelling at each other, fighting to be heard and very afraid that their opinion would be wrong or not accepted.
At the end of the day, I still feel the signs were in bad taste and inappropriate to incoming freshman girls, and personally these comments seemed far too out there to change my mind.
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