25 May 2014, 9:40 am
25 May 2014, 11:10 am
What's the gist of sentiment on Twitter, if I can be lazy and ask you to be more detailed?
Twitter hurts my eyes.
25 May 2014, 11:48 am
25 May 2014, 11:57 am
Pobbles wrote:
What's the gist of sentiment on Twitter, if I can be lazy and ask you to be more detailed?
Twitter hurts my eyes.
Twitter hurts my eyes.
I've already put fourth to work as a moderator here, like me or label me I'm happy to run digital forensics for a page of this scale. Aggregating a few myopically nasty users is one thing, banning them entirely another. Misogyny isn't really so different from fantasized genocide anyway, so perhaps we can apply a bit more code where it's necessary?
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-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
25 May 2014, 12:01 pm
Pobbles wrote:
What's the gist of sentiment on Twitter, if I can be lazy and ask you to be more detailed?
Twitter hurts my eyes.
Twitter hurts my eyes.
I'm not a Twitter person either, but here's a link to some commentary on #yesallwomen.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc ... es/371568/
25 May 2014, 12:13 pm
The best mods don't apply IMO, they are chosen. 
Marcia thanks for the link. I'm not able to completely emphasise with some of the sentiment there because I'm an ASD male, but I have noticed that I am treated with greater suspicion by women unless there's a woman on my arm.
If I can dare to compare this to some of the recent misogyny threads round these 'ere parts... much like the feminists here repeatedly run into the male misconception that all feminists are fascists, decent men are tarred with the same brush as sex offenders and murderers.
Annoying, but this is the world we live in.
25 May 2014, 12:58 pm
25 May 2014, 1:14 pm
25 May 2014, 1:15 pm
Pobbles wrote:
The best mods don't apply IMO, they are chosen.
Marcia thanks for the link. I'm not able to completely emphasise with some of the sentiment there because I'm an ASD male, but I have noticed that I am treated with greater suspicion by women unless there's a woman on my arm.
If I can dare to compare this to some of the recent misogyny threads round these 'ere parts... much like the feminists here repeatedly run into the male misconception that all feminists are fascists, decent men are tarred with the same brush as sex offenders and murderers.
Annoying, but this is the world we live in.
Marcia thanks for the link. I'm not able to completely emphasise with some of the sentiment there because I'm an ASD male, but I have noticed that I am treated with greater suspicion by women unless there's a woman on my arm.
If I can dare to compare this to some of the recent misogyny threads round these 'ere parts... much like the feminists here repeatedly run into the male misconception that all feminists are fascists, decent men are tarred with the same brush as sex offenders and murderers.
Annoying, but this is the world we live in.
I've never found any direct way of contacting Alex, that's not really my opinion of what the site is for though. I may be a crazy hacker, but virulent insanity isn't allowed on my desk and given the proper administrative backing, I could work as a legal adjunct in the interests of keeping our web hosts out of the controversy.
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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
25 May 2014, 1:17 pm
Pobbles wrote:
The best mods don't apply IMO, they are chosen.
Marcia thanks for the link. I'm not able to completely emphasise with some of the sentiment there because I'm an ASD male, but I have noticed that I am treated with greater suspicion by women unless there's a woman on my arm.
If I can dare to compare this to some of the recent misogyny threads round these 'ere parts... much like the feminists here repeatedly run into the male misconception that all feminists are fascists, decent men are tarred with the same brush as sex offenders and murderers.
Annoying, but this is the world we live in.
Marcia thanks for the link. I'm not able to completely emphasise with some of the sentiment there because I'm an ASD male, but I have noticed that I am treated with greater suspicion by women unless there's a woman on my arm.
If I can dare to compare this to some of the recent misogyny threads round these 'ere parts... much like the feminists here repeatedly run into the male misconception that all feminists are fascists, decent men are tarred with the same brush as sex offenders and murderers.
Annoying, but this is the world we live in.
Margaret Atwood wrote:
"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, "a male friend of mine." It's often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don't want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that you do have male friends, that you aren't one of those fire-breathing mythical monsters, The Radical Feminists, who walk around with little pairs of scissors and kick men in the shins if they open doors for you. "A male friend of mine" also gives?let us admit it?a certain weight to the opinions expressed.) So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.
25 May 2014, 1:33 pm
25 May 2014, 2:06 pm
25 May 2014, 2:30 pm
Pobbles wrote:
The best mods don't apply IMO, they are chosen.
Marcia thanks for the link. I'm not able to completely emphasise with some of the sentiment there because I'm an ASD male, but I have noticed that I am treated with greater suspicion by women unless there's a woman on my arm.
If I can dare to compare this to some of the recent misogyny threads round these 'ere parts... much like the feminists here repeatedly run into the male misconception that all feminists are fascists, decent men are tarred with the same brush as sex offenders and murderers.
Annoying, but this is the world we live in.
Marcia thanks for the link. I'm not able to completely emphasise with some of the sentiment there because I'm an ASD male, but I have noticed that I am treated with greater suspicion by women unless there's a woman on my arm.
If I can dare to compare this to some of the recent misogyny threads round these 'ere parts... much like the feminists here repeatedly run into the male misconception that all feminists are fascists, decent men are tarred with the same brush as sex offenders and murderers.
Annoying, but this is the world we live in.
I think this is true. I think also that the way to make this change is for men to take the lead in refusing to accept that kind of behavior from other men. When women shout about misogyny, the whole thing gets written off as a "women's problem", despite the fact that we're over half the population. But I think men tend to care what other men think of them; I think men tend to police each other more effectively than women can.
What it means is that you guys have to do something potentially scary, which is to stand up to other men who are talking and/or behaving in sexist ways, even when no women are around, and make it plain it won't do.
25 May 2014, 4:58 pm
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