[The Swaggy P]

I would like to also point out here, specifically to the people who are flaming & bashing me, rather than trying to talk reasonably about my posts, that I, as a boy/man/male (whichever you prefer), have been discriminated against multiple times in High School.

When my club got an opportunity to host the concessions stand for a football game, I was treated by the women running this event as if I was nothing but a "dumb shop kid". Only the girls were allowed to handle money, or take orders. I was only allowed to pour cheese on tacos.

When my father applied for jobs as a grade school music teacher, when he was not chosen for two of the positions he applied for, he was told, and I'm not making this up, that they "Wanted a woman". When he went to a lawyer to ask about filing a discrimination lawsuit, the lawyer told him that there was no point in filing a lawsuit, because a white man had no chance of winning.

In my own Robotics club, the teacher recruited cheerleaders from our school to join, because it was apparent that our four-man team would never be chosen for Playoffs without girls. The girls could only come to about half of our robotics meetings, and couldn't make the first competition, because of a basketball game. For the second competition, our drive team was told they had to give up half of their scheduled matches to the girls, even though the girls were first-year members, and the current drive team was made up of 3-4 years.

I am not a troll, and I am not against women's events in FIRST. I was originally ONLY against the gender labeling of lectures at a lunchtime meeting. It seems that I cannot express this intention enough, as I still see users accusing me of trying to bring down these events.

I have received private hate messages, both directly & indirectly insulting me. I've been called names, I've received veiled threats. And after looking into my sudden reputation drop to 5 negative reputation bars, I found out that between 12:00 AM & 9:00 AM this morning, 400 negative reputation was added to my profile without any additional rep comments. For these reasons I choose to remain anonymous, since I don't want to be yet another victim of discriminatory violence in a country that supposedly allows freedom of speech.

I am only a high school student, and you have shown me the worst of what the future has to offer here. I will no longer be posting or responding to users in this thread, as I will clearly only receive hate in return.