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News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban
An anonymous reader writes The news aggregator Fark is ancient in dot com terms. Users submit news links to the privately run site and tear it — and each other — to pieces in the discussion threads. (Sound familiar?) While the site isn't as popular as during the early 2000s, the privately run discussion forum has continued and has its champions. site operator Drew Curtis announced today that Gifs, references, jokes and comments involving sexism will be deleted. "Adam Savage once described to me the problem this way: if the Internet was a dude, we'd all agree that dude has a serious problem with women. We've actually been tightening up moderation style along these lines for awhile now, but as of today, the FArQ will be updated with new rules reminding you all that we don't want to be the He Man Woman Hater's Club. This represents enough of a departure from pretty much how every other large internet community operates that I figure an announcement is necessary."
Given how bare-knuckled Fark can be, is it time? Overdue?
Given how bare-knuckled Fark can be, is it time? Overdue?
Guess I have to go to 4chan now to read gay hating misanthropic posts.
Or Slashdot. It's got really, really bad here over the last couple of years. Things really nose dived after the Beta exodus and a lot of regulars left. Pick any random story about equality and it will be full of people accusing the women involved of attacking them personally and of being whiney bitches. Back when the whole Mozilla controversy was going on there were endless posts about how "just not liking gays" was somehow a perfectly okay position to take, and blaming them for daring to demand equality and human rights.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Whiney bitch!!
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
> than who they are attracted to
Actually, it would be that they don't approve of certain behavior, which happens to be unhealthy and contributes to disease, as we can see from the fact that new cases of aids among gay men is still rising, in spite of everything. But you've morphed behavior into identity now and declared it off-limits to even criticize, while excusing your own arbitrary hatred as justified.
"[W]hite western women" are not "the most privileged creatures on this planet", as things like wage disparity, sexual abuse, access to healthcare (including abortion), and attitudes like yours point out. It's astounding that you can write that and expect to be taken seriously, when the chip on your shoulder is casting a shadow over your entire post.
Get a grip.