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A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com)
That shocking statistic comes from a study conducted by Amnesty International and AI software startup Element AI. From a report: In the study, called Troll Patrol, Amnesty International and Element AI looked at data from 288,000 tweets sent to 778 female politicians and journalists in the U.S. and U.K. in 2017. Using machine learning on the data, the group then extrapolated just how wide-ranging abuse toward women is on Twitter. The result: 1.1 million abusive or problematic tweets were sent to the women in the study during the year -- that's one abusive or problematic tweet every 30 seconds. And it's even worse for women of color -- and especially black women -- who were targeted more frequently than white women.
Does the female version of the app come with rockem sockem robots attached? You're on a public platform where people's thoughts are brought to you unfiltered. I am surprised that only 1 in every 125000 messages is mean to a woman.
How about you ignore that 1 message and read the other 124999. Or like me, read none.
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Do the 280 characters or less reach out and pull their hair and choke them?
Who remembers the old saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me"?
Invalidated once we realized emotional pain was real and accepted the impact of the trauma of bullying, harassment, and psychological torture.
Sorry, but words are power, and the pen is mightier than the sword. I can hurt millions with my words, but my hand would tire before I struck 100 people with a stick.
More importantly, how many of those abusive posts were written by women?
(and how many abusive posts did men receive?)
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I'm French. I had to do a mandatory military service. The minimum was 10 months, but in my case, I did two years. The regular "pay" for a conscript was 531F a month (about $80 per month). This was given to conscripts so they could buy hygiene products (soap, toilet paper, razors, etc.), since those were not supplied by the army. Of course, only men were required to do a military service. Women could choose to do it if they wanted to, but they were not required to do anything. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In all Western societies, men have it a lot worse than women.
Good point. Men are called "fags" all the time on the Webnets.
Boom! You win the debate! (seriously)
I've been called names like that, encouraged to kill myself, and other forms of "abuse". Yet I just read those posts without a thought, until you brought that up.
And while I try not to act like that - with occasional slips - I don't think a thing of it.
So the question is Why? Why is something that means almost nothing to me and most other males, an unforgivable assault upon women?
It certainly isn't that women cannot be cruel. I've seen women go after other women and attempt to destroy them without any regret.
The idea that all spaces must be made safe for those who can brook no adversity or disagreement isn't going to work.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.