I've noticed that the word "hater" comes up a good bit when someone doesn't agree with what someone else is doing or saying. For example. The other day I was looking at videos on YouTube. This was a really nice looking car. With the exception of the big 26 inch wheels.

To me, the car looked ridiculous. All I said was, "The car looks good. But as for me I would have made a different choice for wheels." I was labeled a hater right then and there. In other words, If you have a different idea of what looks bad to you, and the mainstream says "this looks good" It's not that you have a different opinion. Your opinion doesn't matter. Because it isn't the mainstream opinion. Because you have a different opinion, You are a hater.

I've noticed that anything the mainstream likes If you don't like it or have a different opinion about it, You are labeled a hater.

opinion - open for debate, willingness to learn more on a topic, can take things into context

hater - closed mindedness, looking for areas to punch holes into, unable to put arguments into proper perspective just to justify being right about something

trolls - intentionally misleading information and ideas, contradicting and misguiding all ideas to promote dissent

interpretation can be dependent on both poster's and reader's intent and frame of mind.

To true both statements; but when we think that our snide rejoinder/pack attack mentality will change the other posters mind is this 'OPINION' or 'HATE' and becomes nothing more than a sorry excuse for a conversation 'gone wrong'!
It's one thing to crack a joke - bring in a off color comment to lighten the mood - hey who doesn't enjoy a joke?

And when all else fails and the conversation starts falling apart; does gender make a difference in whether or not the 2 discussing a difficult topic will part ways in a 'FRIENDLY' manner or one has to lay waste the field in a 'take no prisoner/no holds barred' way?

Seems gender has played an issue especially in politics?

you know this is not new in some people's bag of tricks

when faced with a shrewd and intelligent opponent
if someone gets a little wobbly and feels like they might be losing ground
or that someone might be shooting holes in their arguement

when all else fails

the weak will go after things like gender, race, your religion
anything to provoke an emotional response out of you
tick you off and make you go away

I do try levity sometimes to lighten the mood
and though it appears that I swoop in and de-rail a thread by doing so
there is usually a method to such madness

It's all a bit of a subjective topic. Too much wiggle room.

I've done the same thing if I'm already vested into the topic and I hate to see the discussion get pounded into something that it shouldn't or someone 'blown' away by a personal attack.
But I've found as the Internet age as grown and FB has taken over so many community forums {many have just shriveled up and died} that the majority of men to women has always been skewed more toward the male species and not for the female; I was quite surprised and pleased to find so many active women participating on this community forum.

2 old die hard political sights that I participate on {circa 2004} have lost 99% of their female participants and now we're just down to some of the 'die hard - hard headed' last of the originals that know each other so well we can type a response without even waiting for their signature! Becomes really boring without the 'NEWBIES' to bring in a fresh IDEA or two! LOL

great topic,, its like the difference between a reason and an excuse

it really seems to be quite a subjective difference based solely on the listeners/readers perspective

Like Taylor Swift says "shake it off" If we lose our ability to have opinions we will fail as a society.