I have no idea what sort of community you live in but that is not the norm in civilized societies, no wonder you seem so confused

In simpler words, you're a conservative troll

That is more a problem with the rest of the world, not with the West...depending on how strong the conservative groups in a given country are, the situation would be that much worse...you are a conservative, luckily for most Americans, you are not as dominant as you'd like to be hence you are left to spew your vitriol on the internet instead of successfully taking your country back to the stone age

So the expectation to not be insulted for who you are and the expectation to not be threatened with violence is the same as demanding special treatment? What world do you live in?

I know plenty of white males most of whom are pretty nice guys, you otoh are an idiot which has nothing to do with your ethnicity, your gender or your orientation...as to your rhetoric about how the world is discriminating against straight white men when the topic of discussion is how women working in a particular industry are harassed, its pathetic, it reeks of attention whoring and from what I can tell, you have a very childish attitude of 'me, me, me'...I am sure you'll find some aspect of discrimination against straight white men somewhere in my comment but rest assured, that's just in your head...you could have been from an entirely different planet and your comment would have merited this very same response...

I'm not asking for anything that I don't ask from myself.

Wow, you actually expect to get threatening emails containing your address to prove to you that the person making the threat is fully capable of carrying out their threat? Errrmmm whatever floats your boat...just don't expect others to put up with that sort of shit without trying to do something about it, oh look, that's exactly what the writer of the post is doing, trying to do something about it to raise awareness but I am sure she is somehow discriminating against straight white blokes or being childish, how dastardly of her

Sadly I don't have any mod points

Its not? Maybe when you are amongst a group of friends who each rib each other...on a public forum, it most definitely is equal to racism or sexism or homophobia...

good for you BasilBrush, keep drinking the kool-aid, keeps the reality distortion field strong

I'm whining about the possibility that Google might be coercing manufacturers into adding this warranty condition.

That's not what you were whining about just a couple posts ago...and the reason the manufacturers void the warranty if the OS or bootloader is modified is to protect themselves from having to deal with bricked devices in a failed attempt to flash a custom ROM. Honestly? The number of times I've seen people moaning at XDA-devs for bricking their device is unbelievable after they've tried to flash a ROM meant for a different device onto their own device, eg on a certain ROM for Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9505, the one with a Snapdragon 600 processor and 4G-LTE connectivity (the name of the device the ROM was meant for was clearly stated, sadly I can't remember which ROM it was), this person was trying to warn everyone that the ROM had bricked his phone and the developer was a dick because he would not help him out, he was insisting that he had followed the instructions to the letter when trying to install the ROM on a Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9500, the one with an Exynos processor without 4G-LTE. If the warranty hadn't been voided, this person would have definitely tried to return the device to Samsung and Samsung don't want him to return the device to them when the device was bricked through no fault on their part. What gives you the idea that Google have anything to do with the manufacturers voiding warranty if the OS is modified? Seems like you're clutching at straws just to somehow find a reason to keep whining at Google.

Where can I hold one of those phones in a showroom in northeast Indiana before I buy it

Eh? You just changed the requirements...you asked which Android phones sans Google services could be bought in the USA and I told you which phones were available (as an example, here's Xiaomi Mi3). Now you want a retail store, how about you do your own research?

You want to force businesses to cater to a niche, extremely minuscule market, why exactly should they do that? I am a liberal and even I find that wrong.

Also, you do realize that Android is just a Linux distribution and just like you can't call a fork of Debian, Debian, a fork of Android can't be called Android. Google releases AOSP which can be (and has been) forked (by Amazon and Nokia to name a few) and the only restriction imposed by Google is that the fork can not be called Android, how exactly is it Google's fault that phone manufacturers (besides Chinesee manufacturers) do not want to fork Android and release their own version stripped of Google services? Me and most of my mates have Cyanogenmod installed on our phones and all of us installed Google services because we want the convenience they bring with them. Heck, even most Chinese manufacturers release an international version with Google services. Could it possibly be because a majority of the customers of the manufacturers do not want to do without the convenience brought to them by Google services? So again, why exactly should these manufacturers be forced into releasing products that almost no one would want?

If the headphone jack goes out a week later, I don't want the manufacturer to be able to use my installation of CyanogenMod against me.

So your problem are the manufacturers? I agree, changing the OS on a computer (a smartphone is just that, a computer in a non-traditional format) should not void its warranty. Why exactly are you whining about Google again?

Good riddance

Xiaomi and Lenovo and Nokia off the top of my head or you can simply stop being a lazy ass whiner and get a phone supported by CyanogenMod, flash CyanogenMod and never deal with Google services again

Don't install free apps from the play store maybe? Most apps have a free, ad-supported version and a paid, ad-free version... if you chose to use the free, ad-supported version, you do not have a moral right to deny the developers their income by blocking adverts

I know all that, here's the comment I was responding to:

If you're going to mutilate the genitals of your young girls, tell your women they can't drive, stone people to death for drawing cartoons, marry off children, beat homosexuals in the street until they're bloody and starve your citizens until near death then hell yeah I'm going to tell you how to live in your nation.

Now I don't know about you but to me that sounds an awful lot like the conditions in Saudi Arabia (except for the starving your people part, the Saudi regime seems to give just enough to the commoners to keep them from revolting, not that a revolt would do much good) hence my comment that Saudi Arabia is an ally of the US which was supposed to demonstrate to the OP that the US government does not care about civil liberties for the masses or stone-age-practices supported by a regime claiming to rule by divine right as long as the said regime serves America's corporate interests...

and what the fuck do you have against women?

Oi, stop feeding the trolls, you've made some pretty good points and since they have no logical retort, they've resorted to trolling you...learn to ignore them