Re:Social media has elevated misogyny to new levels of viole...
by SippinLean on Sunday November 11, 2018 @12:29PM
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Where in her book or in the article did she "call words and speech 'violence'"?
Re:Social media has elevated misogyny to new levels of viole...
by funkythings on Sunday November 11, 2018 @12:33PM
(#18427465)
Have you read the title?
> [...] elevated misogyny to new levels of violence
Re:Social media has elevated misogyny to new levels of viole...
by anticensor on Sunday November 11, 2018 @12:40PM
(#18427507)
> Violence may be motivated by violence, but in itself it is not violence.
What does this mean? I tried to parse and only got a contradictory expression.
Re:Social media has elevated misogyny to new levels of viole...
by funkythings on Sunday November 11, 2018 @03:22PM
(#18428369)
oh, typo! Violence may be motivated by misogyny, yada yada
Re:Social media has elevated misogyny to new levels of viole...
by WalterGR on Sunday November 11, 2018 @10:04PM
(#18430297)
Radical feminists do the same thing, just reversed.
I see this claim made by a lot of people, but never with any evidence.
Could you cite that radical feminism is misogyny reversed?
Re:Social media has elevated misogyny to new levels of viole...
by funkythings on Monday November 12, 2018 @03:27AM
(#18431304)
the opposite of misogyny is misandry
http://misandry.tripod.com/id6.html
A more serious take: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/30/the-spawn-feminisms-...
Of course, esepcially the first link is definitely biased. But you find it all over if you look for it. #killallmen, #maletears etc on Twitter. You get the point.
> “It is without doubt that social media has allowed this to happen,” she says of the toxic moment we’re in. “It has created the opportunity for men with anti-feminist ideas to broadcast their views to more people than ever before – and to spread conspiracy theories, lies and misinformation
Even if you believe what shes trying to explain, why is it unique for men? Radical feminists do the same thing, just reversed. Anyone with any hateful opinion can speak on the internet.