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'I Got Death Threats For Writing a Bad Review of Aquaman' (huffingtonpost.com)
The Huffington Post recently published a post by one of the 300 members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association -- and a contributing writer to Variety:
I saw "Aquaman" on a brisk Monday morning in December. Though I appreciated that star Jason Momoa didn't take himself too seriously while playing an underwater superhero, the glut of CGI effects distracted me from the story. Which was hollow and nonsensical anyway. As with every movie I watch -- up to four a week, hundreds a year -- I expressed my opinion in print and online for Us Weekly, as well as my own site, MaraMovies.com. The review was also linked on Rotten Tomatoes, where I'm a Top Critic.
Since I had a lot of films on my busy holiday schedule, I quickly moved on. Hundreds of men who read my review did not.... [Example comment: "I will kill your mom, dad and friends Bcoz I want [you] to regret for what u did. I have your address and details about your family members."] I reported the messages to Instagram and was rebuffed because, per the automated response, the vitriol didn't "violate community guidelines." Didn't matter. They found me on Facebook and Twitter, too.... Nearly 2,000 people "liked" a post in which some guy made a collage of my face and a few negative reviews.... I wasn't scared by the threats as I much as I was disheartened. One guy summed it up when he messaged me: "How many of us are you going to block? There are thousands of us."
Ironically, the review wasn't all negative. It called Aquaman "the first live-action D.C. Comics movie in which a superhero actually appears to be having fun. Batman, Superman, the Suicide Squad, even our beloved Wonder Woman tend to behave as if they just lost their 401(k) savings during the apocalypse." Yet rifing on the critic's last name, one commenter still wrote "hope another Holocaust happens."
Instead of "thousands" of angry fans, it could just be hundreds who are using multiple accounts. But there's a larger issue. "I worry that reading volumes of hate mail is starting to get in my head and cause me to consider the potential angry male ramifications while I'm writing my reviews, thereby compromising my integrity."
Since I had a lot of films on my busy holiday schedule, I quickly moved on. Hundreds of men who read my review did not.... [Example comment: "I will kill your mom, dad and friends Bcoz I want [you] to regret for what u did. I have your address and details about your family members."] I reported the messages to Instagram and was rebuffed because, per the automated response, the vitriol didn't "violate community guidelines." Didn't matter. They found me on Facebook and Twitter, too.... Nearly 2,000 people "liked" a post in which some guy made a collage of my face and a few negative reviews.... I wasn't scared by the threats as I much as I was disheartened. One guy summed it up when he messaged me: "How many of us are you going to block? There are thousands of us."
Ironically, the review wasn't all negative. It called Aquaman "the first live-action D.C. Comics movie in which a superhero actually appears to be having fun. Batman, Superman, the Suicide Squad, even our beloved Wonder Woman tend to behave as if they just lost their 401(k) savings during the apocalypse." Yet rifing on the critic's last name, one commenter still wrote "hope another Holocaust happens."
Instead of "thousands" of angry fans, it could just be hundreds who are using multiple accounts. But there's a larger issue. "I worry that reading volumes of hate mail is starting to get in my head and cause me to consider the potential angry male ramifications while I'm writing my reviews, thereby compromising my integrity."
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Oh, this is really just a female being hounded by nerdy incels. It likely has little to do with Aquaman, if anything.
The fact aquaman is grossing over a billion dollars worldwide so soon ahead of so many other titles is proof we are now in an alternate timeline.
The movie honestly sucked, almost walked out half way through.
And I haven't even seen the movie. So there.
Can't figure it out. Also anything from HuffingtonPost is nothing but Feminist propaganda. > /dev/null
Seriously, THIS is a "crisis" worthy of posting on Slashdot ?
Slashdot has not just gone down hill, it's out of the toilet now and running through the sewer, along with a whole bunch of other turds.
And to the anonymous critic :
If you can't handle the reality that some of the public are crazy and some of the public are assholes, you need to find yourself a different job.
And while you're at it : GROW UP.
"I worry that reading volumes of hate mail is starting to get in my head and cause me to consider the potential angry male ramifications while I'm writing my reviews, thereby compromising my integrity."
So then, why are you reading it?
It's usually apparent in the first few words what is going on. Just stop reading and move on. It's not even worth the effort of writing up a rebuttal, unless maybe you use the effort for a writing exercise or just for the lols.
But if you do read it, just remember that death threats on the internet are absurdly hollow. No-one wants to actually get up from a chair and do anything about anything (in that regard, possibly people with standing desks should be taken slightly more seriously - they will definitely let you know if they have a standing desk).
If you have more of your public info known maybe take steps to give the local police a heads-up about possible swatting attempts, but that's as far as you need to think about it.
The internet has seen people issuing all manner of death threats or creepy vibes since the dawn of time. Taking any of it even a tiny bit seriously makes zero sense. Just think of them as a write-only form of fan and happily keep doing what you do. There a special irony these days in people that hate follow you, in that they are inherently increasing your internet "attention metric" which makes you numerically more important than you would be otherwise!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Of aquaman fans
Good thing no angry females wrote in. I hear they can be even more vicious. Amazing how you can tell everyone's gender through pseudonyms, though.
Aquaman was probably one of the better DC movies. (Haven't seen WonderWoman yet). The acting was alright. The plot wasn't without holes, but which super hero movie has an ironclad plot. The CGI was sometimes terrible: DC really need to stop the "fight while flying" scenes that look straight out of a bad live action dragon ball z. They were terrible in Justice League and the under water duel in Aquaman had similar problems.
Overall, it entertained me for a couple of hours and I'll probably rewatch it at some point. But as some people put it, while it is a top-tier DC super hero movie, it would be bottom tier if it were a marvel movie.
I wanted to see Disney release their own ground breaking Marvel superclassic new idea:
Sub-Mariner
at the exaxt same time as Aquaman.
All I am saying, is give fish a chance. /s
the guys behind this movie don't watch south park
I'm not particularly tied to any brand of superhero - I've watched most of the Avengers stuff, and a lot of the DC stuff.
I've not yet watched Aquaman but from the previews, and from some reviews I've seen it seems like Aquaman at least took things a bit less seriously - so maybe Aquaman is a bit more like the Spiderman movies in that regard?
So I could easily see between that and some large showpiece effect pieces how it could gross a billion. Or maybe it's because underwater fights in movies are much more rare and so this is visually "fresh" compared to standard superhero space/ground combat.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I've never understood all the Aquaman hatred. Saying he can only swim and talk to fish. I remember a few comic books where he was tossing around bulldozers with Superman. Hardly the wimp haters make him out to be.
Huffpost is not long for this world. They are owned by AOL/Verizon. Verizon gives companies 2-3 years to 'prove themselves'. Then they come in and tear shit up if it is not 'performing'. There is no way huffingtonpost is performing. Dialup is performing better from what I remember.
Did she just assume their gender?
These people are basement dwelling losers. It is right and proper that they are offended by mere criticism of a comic book adaptation.
Honestly, if it isn't, I would have stopped using the service... and if my job depended on it, I would explain to my employer why I did so, or at the very least, require a raise on account of needing danger pay.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
(1) It's her fault for feeling bad.>
No - I'm saying it's in her ability to not feel bad about it. Big distinction, which I'm sure will elude you but I think the smarter among us will grok it.
(2) She should be thankful for the attention.
The term "thankful" is incorrect. However as long as anyone is able to shrug off negative comments, in fact there is a net positive - especially for someone writing for publication, what the "corporate machine" as it were sees is a LOT of comments on something you wrote. Score!
See what a lot of people don't seem to understand here is that the saddest thing on the internet is to write something, which no-one pays any attention to. Hate or Love are signs that you have moved someone, which is valuable either way - because you have changed the universe in same way, at least a little bit.
(3) Her level of fame is undeserved.
I'm not sure how you get there from where I was, her level of fame simply IS. How anyone could state a particular level of fame is "undeserved" makes zero sense to me, as it is what they have and "deserved" does not enter in the equation.
Going back to specifics, I think her review was probably about right (not having seen the movie yet it's hard to be sure, but it sounds right from what I've heard).
Generically, I'm just giving everyone advice on how to live, so as to lead a happy and productive life that elevates humanity as a whole instead of being lowered by a small fragment of it. Going back to that Love/Hate thing, both are energy and all energy can provide fuel for your own creative efforts. Nuclear material is powerfully destructive, but energy from a nuclear plant can power a million greenhouses of the finest flowers...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL UNTIL YOU ARE BRUTALLY MURDERED
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"News at 11 when we hang the treasonous GOP INCEL faggots"
They found me on Facebook and Twitter, too.
Yet another reason not to use social media with your real name.
As if we needed another one on top of the countless others.
Go back to your corner, cuck.
Seriously? I know the anti-SJWism is strong on this forum, but no, nobody outside of a few YouTuber's looking for the next big controversy to rile their fanbase up with and solicit Patreon donations with even noticed they got a heart throb to play Aquaman (which is the extent of the "marketing" towards women).
I mean, the first Thor movie was pretty crap and there were't any death threats there. And don't you tell me it's anti male because there's a strong female lead in it. Go read the bloody comics. Aquaman's wife is a fucking bad ass and has been since the late 70s (not sure before then, didn't follow that era). You wanna piss off Aquaman fans (both of us)? Go make a male power fantasy where his wife needs a savin'.
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Just stick to the web. Social Media is completely toxic and can serve no purpose for the good of mankind.
But, what I would caution you _not_ to do is refer to things like "angry male ramifications" because at that point you are painting roughly half of the world population with a very broad brush. You have a small minority of the population giving you flack, out of a world population of something like 8 billion, and a national population of 330-ish million.
How about you refer to the "few angry internet asshole ramifications" rather than calling _me_ an angry male because a few other misguided and underdeveloped members of my species don't know how to handle rejection?
What does the word "male" do in that sentence except adding sexism? Does it matter what gender the hate mailers have?
Huffpost is not long for this world. They are owned by AOL/Verizon. Verizon gives companies 2-3 years to 'prove themselves'. Then they come in and tear shit up if it is not 'performing'. There is no way huffingtonpost is performing. Dialup is performing better from what I remember.
Media outlets owned by corporations or other special interest groups operate by different rules than other companies. The way they perform is measured by how many people they reach because that translates directly into the ability to shape public opionin which has all kinds of benefits for the owner of the outlet other that what nickels and dimes they earn off of it. If a media outlet turns a profit that is only gravy.
2% of the population are psychopaths; also 2% are sadists.
In a world of nearly 8 billion people - with 4% psychopaths or sadists that is 320 million people who have a natural tendency to do such behavior. So when you are on a platform like twitter or instagram and can be contacted by anyone - chances are you are going to encounter a large number of them. Since the platforms allows some anonymity - they can engage in their behavior with little risk of repercussions.
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Racist
Bigot
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Keep it up lefties
A REAL war is the only solution. Enjoy your "civil" war. Mexico will be very grateful for the wall in 20 years..
Nobody likes Aquaman. Everyone knows this.
I satirized this kind of thinking upthread, and now I'm questioning if this one's legit.
You people posting these hateful replies and death threats (!!) in response to a movie review need to get a life.
If you have a life, then you need to get a better one.
I can't imagine being so incensed over a movie review as to actually start making death threats.
For example, casting that pint-sized douchebag Tom Cruise as the character "Jack Reacher" really, really, really pissed me off, but it never occurred to me to send a death threat to anyone over it. Sheesh.
(For those of you who aren't familiar with the original, actual Jack Reacher character, one of his main distinguishing features is that he's a big guy- really big. Like, way way way bigger than Tom Cruise. That's part of his whole schtick- he's a great big dude. It's central to his entire character.
Picking Tom Cruise to play Jack Reacher was the single most fucked-up character casting choice I've ever seen in my life, period. It would be like picking one of the Oompa Loompas to play Arnold Schwarzenegger, or having Liberace play "Dog The Bounty Hunter.")
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
"consider the potential angry male ramifications"
Stoped reading there (well, it was just before the end).
She is a sexist, and therefore an idiot.
Shit on yourself some more Nazi faggot.
You mean to say that you wrote a negative review of the movie. Not that writing a bad review is ever justification to receive death threats, but now you're at risk of getting hate mail from the grammar Nazis too.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it dissolve.
the recent Gillette commercial where the company said men should tone down their toxic masculinity. Here is a great example. Because the reviewer wrote something which didn't effusively glow about a how ripped Momoa was, about how manly he looked, about how his character portrayed all that is manly (based on the above blurb it seemed the character did not do that), the "men" came out in droves to criticize, belittle and of course, threaten the person who gave their honest opinion.
It's almost as if Gillette was sending out a not so subtle message about reality.
.. why a threat to kill someone, anyone, would not be a violation of their terms of service.
Sure, it's against terms of service.
But the problem is how do you find that balance of, letting as many people as possible provide feedback and thus feel more engaged - vs. locking down the system so much no-one wants to contribute, and they feel unwelcome.
If you really want to control things via "terms of service" you need to have a system locked down enough you can actually manage to control it. But then you are shutting out a lot of people who would just casually comment.
It does seem to me like a good modern compromise would be for comments on something to be wide open, but be auto-filtered by an AI to recognize spam and/or extremely derogatory or hate filled content. Semantic understanding has gained a lot of ground to where you could probably have an effective neutral network police comments that would mostly work, or work well enough for manual moderation to pick up any remaining slack.
One aspect of such a system I've been thinking about for a while is, you could probably start by looking for users who block/mark comments with 100% accuracy. Going forward you should probably trust their markings automatically rather than waiting for a moderator to examine what they marked, and you could base training for filters on what they mark. Sure that has potential for abuse, but if you do not let them know they have that automatic power it probably would not be abused or someone veering into abuse could be quickly recognized and be removed from an automatically trusted list.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
100 years ago these were the actions of the Klan.
I recently caught an article by Max Read about how much of the Internet is "fake" in the sense that the readership is actually bots defrauding those paying for the ads:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer...
I bring up this topic because it strikes me that the people paying for all these sites may soon demand to know how many verifiable human beings are actually in the audience.
5 years ago, much less 20, you wouldn't have caught me saying that a lot of the web should be not locked behind paywalls exactly, but require proof-of-individual-humanity at least. And that would in practice lead to "proof" via credit card. Now I'm ready to cave on that anyway.
I'd rather live in a society that has cops; rather drink in a bar that has bouncers. I'd rather talk in a space where threats of violence result in not only permanent expulsion, but the same legal consequences as saying the same thing to my face. (An assault charge. Mere threats are an assault. Hence the term "assault and battery" if actual contact occurs.) Right now, assault is a crime IRL but not on the Internet, in any practical sense.
And I think that 99% of this crap would stop if the commentators all knew that the threatened person could find out where they live and send over cops with an assault charge.
I have an appalling habit, of comments on news columns. It's pointless, I know, it's identical to shouting at the TV, but there you go. (It started with /. in the 90s) I notice that the NYT and WaPo, which require a sign-up to comment, almost never have harsh language, much less threats. I used to comment at The Atlantic, which did not...and now The Atlantic has shut down the whole comment system, since they were just providing a chat room that was mostly used by angry people, the thoughtful ones having been chased out of the bar with no bouncers.
Her review is hardly a feminist critique of the movie. The negative points it details are bad CGI, wooden acting, cheese ball lines, and poor romance sub plot chemistry while acknowledging that the character of Aquaman himself was much more fun than the rest of the DC universe heroes.
Now I haven't seen the movie so I have no idea how accurate her claims are but what is glaringly obvious is that there's no radical feminist agenda preset in it.
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he recent Gillette commercial where the company said men should tone down their toxic masculinity.
Online threats are the very opposite of "masculine". Raging hormones in men say "let's take it outside then", not "let's step into my basement with the wall full of Hentai statues and DVD rips".
Online threats are the very domain of beings that are neither masculine or feminine; indeed they have chosen to strip themselves even even the most basic levels of humanity or physical attributes.
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Can't figure it out.
Also anything from HuffingtonPost is nothing but Feminist propaganda. > /dev/null
^ has never been laid
and sifting through crap you and I would find abhorrent for the sake of reporting and chronicling things is what she does for a living? She might, for example, be searching for a point in all that hate.
I've been trying to figure out why folks are so obsessed with SJWism lately. It's treated as a major crisis online on par with our economy, education, global warming and the US Healthcare system. A few angry feminists with little or no political power doesn't seem to be a good focal point for a movement when 45,000 Americans will die this year from preventable illness and by all accounts our economy is on it's way to a recession. Nevermind that we've been at war with Afghanistan for almost as long as my kid's been alive.
If you want to understand something you're going to have to dig into it. A lot of what I get out of the Incel crowd is pretty abhorrent, but I'd like to think there's something to their frustrations & misplaced rage than simply being nasty, mean spirited people. And to get anywhere you have to listen to them. Yes. there have been cases of men abused by feminazis. Based on the stats I think there's about 10,000 false rape accusations a year, which is scary (it might be scarier that there's somewhere in the ballpark of 800,000 rapes per year of that 10,000 # is accurate....).
If you're going to try and fix somebody's complaint you have to try to understand it. Few go through life full of rage because they want to. If we can get a bead on why and tackle root causes in a way that's beneficial for all that's the right thing to do.
If you're a journalist or writer you're on the front lines of that. What you're hearing from her is the journalists equivalent of a solider complaining about war. Nothing wrong with that.
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I just went through this. I was accused of assault and transphobia for using the pronoun "they" referring to a transgender man in the year that he was changing gender. It was deemed a hate crime and assault by someone who had no idea what *real* assault is.
So be clear: what kind of death threat did you receive? Or was it a mocking "I will rip your head off and squeegee your lungs from the inside" kind of hyperbole?
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LOL you'd wet yourself for sure if it happened to you
Shut up, APK. Go do something useful with your life instead of spamming Slashdot. Don't you have anything better to do? Everyone knows you're responsible for this spam, the really long Jew-hating spam last night, and the harassment of Ray Morris. You should be banned from ever posting on Slashdot again, you worthless waste of a human life. Security professionals agree that your hosts file software is poorly written and pretty much worthless, so get that spam out of here, too. You're too incompetent to make a Mac version, despite spamming for weeks. You lied, claiming you own rental properties when that clearly isn't the case. Do yourself a favor and voluntarily leave Slashdot.
and sifting through crap you and I would find abhorrent for the sake of reporting and chronicling things is what she does for a living?
That might be what she was doing for this article, but why continue after - when I'm saying saying it's better not to read, I am mostly responding to her expressed concern that it would affect what she chose to write going forward. If that's a concern, stop reading the content that might affect you in that way.
Just like some people won't drink coffee at night, if you know something affects you in a negative way, don't consume it - mentally or physically.
If you're going to try and fix somebody's complaint
That's where you need to learn to distinguish between complaint and ingenuous complaint. With most online hate as I said, it's very clear within the first few words what kind of complaint you are facing. You can't "fix" someone's obviously fully-baked opinion, or something made up, so why make an effort to do so?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Shut up, APK. Go do something useful with your life instead of spamming Slashdot. Now you're posting death threats because you don't like certain individuals? Not only is that illegal, but it shows just how utterly pathetic you are. Don't you have anything better to do? Everyone knows you're responsible for this spam, the really long Jew-hating spam last night, and the harassment of Ray Morris. You should be banned from ever posting on Slashdot again, you worthless waste of a human life. Security professionals agree that your hosts file software is poorly written and pretty much worthless, so get that spam out of here, too. You're too incompetent to make a Mac version, despite spamming for weeks. You lied, claiming you own rental properties when that clearly isn't the case. Do yourself a favor and voluntarily leave Slashdot.
Shut up, APK. Go do something useful with your life instead of spamming Slashdot. Now you're posting death threats because you don't like certain individuals? Not only is that illegal, but it shows just how utterly pathetic and worthless you are. Don't you have anything better to do? Everyone knows you're responsible for this spam, the really long Jew-hating spam last night, and the harassment of Ray Morris. You should be banned from ever posting on Slashdot again, you worthless waste of a human life. You are a shit stain who has never done a single thing of value with his life. You were even a third rate bench warmer for your college lacrosse team, and yet you brag about that decades later. Security professionals agree that your hosts file software is poorly written and pretty much worthless, so get that spam out of here, too. You're too incompetent to make a Mac version, despite spamming for weeks. You lied, claiming you own rental properties when that clearly isn't the case. Do yourself a favor and voluntarily leave Slashdot.
Shut up, APK. Go do something useful with your life instead of spamming Slashdot. Now you're posting death threats because you don't like certain individuals? Not only is that illegal, but it shows just how utterly pathetic and worthless you are. Don't you have anything better to do? Everyone knows you're responsible for this spam, the really long Jew-hating spam last night, and the harassment of Ray Morris. You should be banned from ever posting on Slashdot again, you worthless waste of a human life. You are a shit stain who has never done a single thing of value with his life. You were even a third rate bench warmer for your college lacrosse team, and yet you brag about that decades later. Security professionals agree that your hosts file software is poorly written and pretty much worthless, so get that spam out of here, too. You're too incompetent to make a Mac version, despite spamming for weeks. You lied, claiming you own rental properties when that clearly isn't the case. Do yourself a favor and voluntarily leave Slashdot. Get this through your head: no one wants you around. No one.
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Shut up, APK. Go do something useful with your life instead of spamming Slashdot. Now you're posting death threats because you don't like certain individuals? Not only is that illegal, but it shows just how utterly pathetic and worthless you are. Don't you have anything better to do? Everyone knows you're responsible for this spam, the really long Jew-hating spam last night, and the harassment of Ray Morris. You're projecting your own Nazi allegiance onto others like SuperKendall and Ray Morris. You should be banned from ever posting on Slashdot again, you worthless waste of a human life. You are a shit stain who has never done a single thing of value with his life. You were even a third rate bench warmer for your college lacrosse team, and yet you brag about that decades later. Security professionals agree that your hosts file software is poorly written and pretty much worthless, so get that spam out of here, too. You're too incompetent to make a Mac version, despite spamming for weeks. You lied, claiming you own rental properties when that clearly isn't the case. Do yourself a favor and voluntarily leave Slashdot. Get this through your head: no one wants you around. No one.
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"News at 11 when we hang the treasonous GOP INCEL faggots"
Shut up, APK. Go do something useful with your life instead of spamming Slashdot. Now you're posting death threats because you don't like certain individuals? Not only is that illegal, but it shows just how utterly pathetic and worthless you are. Don't you have anything better to do? Everyone knows you're responsible for this spam, the really long Jew-hating spam last night, and the harassment of Ray Morris. You're projecting your own Nazi allegiance onto others like SuperKendall and Ray Morris. You should be banned from ever posting on Slashdot again, you worthless waste of a human life. You are a shit stain who has never done a single thing of value with his life. You were even a third rate bench warmer for your college lacrosse team, and yet you brag about that decades later. Security professionals agree that your hosts file software is poorly written and pretty much worthless, so get that spam out of here, too. You're too incompetent to make a Mac version, despite spamming for weeks. You lied, claiming you own rental properties when that clearly isn't the case. You also lie when you say that open source is inherently insecure and that trolls threatened to make a malicious imitation of your software. Do yourself a favor and voluntarily leave Slashdot. Get this through your head, APK: no one wants you around. No one.
I got death threats way back when for pointing out that Nickelback sucked.
You didn't get death threats from thousands of people. You got death threats from bots run by low paid professional trolls working for a reputation management firm.
"Being that Aquaman was aggressively marketed towards women"
It was supposed to make them wet?
The specific use of a gender over the generic "people" suggests the author has a chip on her shoulder; how does she know it was men, or all men?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
If a person in real life threatens to kill you, you call the police. If a person threatened to kill me on the Internet, I'd also call the police. I don't understand how this can happen and people are not being arrested and put into jail. Threatening somebody's life is illegal.
I don't respond to AC's.
It was just slightly less shitty than all the other recent DC universe films. It should win an award for most cliches in a single movie.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL FOR YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA UNTIL YOU ARE BRUTALLY MURDERED
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Looks like this place is fucked either way.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
If that derails you, I guess I better not repeat the replies I got to a review I did on Ghostbusters 2016. Could I get some hollow death threats instead?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Post something that offends females. The females not only will threaten you, they will character assassinate you and destroy your career. And since there's no physical violence involved they will get away with it.
Welcome to the internet, where you happen to be talking to all the crazies no matter their gender.
Nazi nazi nazi! Nazi nazi? Nazi nazi, republican! LOL!
Two issues.
1, "Huffington Post"
2, "Hundreds of *men* who read my review did not" (which is exactly why, Huffington Post gives a shit)
Jason Momoa is a handsome man, currently in the "omg yes please!" Club for girls (and some men) across the world. I find it hard to believe this guy was threatened only by men. Furthermore, I suspect this was exaggerated, due again to #1, who have an act to grind.
They may as well be called "extreme left, hate white men post" at this point.
http://i.4pcdn.org/tv/14639966...
This country is fucked. I hope that snowflakes are happy with the fascist dystopia they've created when it comes back to bite *them*.
Yes, those terms are more or less interchangeable. Glad you understand this basic shit, congrats.
+3 if I could.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Suck my big ole republican cock
But I've had people show up at a home I previously lived at more than once, so it's not all idle threats and the internet makes it quite easy to track someone down.
I worked in radio for a short time, I was not an on air personality but was in the studio on occasion (I ran the server and website), I lived on a military base at one point and one still managed to make it to my door. On air personalities had it worse but at least they got hookers and blow on occasion (along with home cooked meals, pizza deliveries, and more). You call them empty, but you have no idea how crazy some people really are and it only takes one to decide you're worth finding. If you are even remotely competent, it's not hard to track down 99% of people.
I have run into this same sort of behaviour in my work too. Sometime people read articles I've written and just go nuts, sometimes over thing I said they didn't like. Often over things I didn't writ ethat they imagined I wrote. Often I get insults, sometimes threats.
Personally, I don't think social media sites and the Ineternet in general have scaled well. Almost all sites (social media, dating, blogs) make it easy to contact strangers and say anything without concequences. One person doing this isn't so bad, dozens is a pain, thousands is a huge issue.
It really should be hard for anonymous users to message content creators. Otherwise creators are going to keep getting chased off platforms by a very violent and angry minority that want to silence everyone else.
shut up apk
huff post writers are idiots was one of dcs best movies in a while....when was the last time anyone wanted to reference the huff post.....OH RIGHT NEVER
I can't get myself to believe that TFA checks either box. Oh wait. Was it because the reviewer was on the internets, which use TCP N stuff? Nope.
Ohhhh. It's cuz she was *female*... and given now *clicks* matter (to Slashdot owners), *now* it makes sense.
I'd like to call for being able to down vote TFA that those with mod pts need maybe 5 down votes to just kill TFA...? Think about it, editors?
Looks like this place is fucked either way.
No, it looks like they are only fucked if their hit rate goes down or if they start questioning the wisdom of the 'suggestions' their corporate overlords have on what topics they should concentrate their writing on and what slant their writing should have. It's pretty much the same as various parts of the Murdoch media like, say .... Fox News for example. Except I expect entities like the Huffington Post to be much more subtle about it. Fox News is, in the best of gutter press news reporting tradition, a bit of a shotgun blast to the face while outfits like the Huffington post are more refined, like a rifle.
... the story. Which was hollow and nonsensical anyway
That is every single superhero movie ever (almost).
He must have known that going in.
I'd assumed that all the Aquaman crap was a big joke, like in Entourage.
Someone actually made a movie? Srsly?!!!
You can stop right there: no excuse needed. The most trivial form of moderation is all that's needed.
That's trivial to say, but the reality is even the most trivial form of moderation is very hard to do - even simply getting rid of death threats which are super obviously useless. For any site with a lot of separate articles, that is WAY too much work for humans to do, and for some reason automation to date seems to not do a very good job catching anything that really should be blocked... it's true of any site that had a large number of readers and people commenting.
Can you name any large site that handles a lot of comments that is free of fairly noxious stuff much of the time?
I personally am perfectly OK with any site clamping down hard on speech that is worthless in terms of content - however a lot of the world seems to have confused that speech, with ideological views they disagree with and so they leave up many outright death threats while blocking others for simply saying they do not like someone else's views. There again, seemingly trivial moderation is utterly failing.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Aquaman was boring. So was Batman v Superman. So was Wonder Woman. So was Justice League...though not as boring as the rest.
Honestly, DC writers need to walk over to Marvel and ask them for pointers on how to write a good movie. The only Marvel movie I have found boring was Black Panther, and it was still l a lot better than anything DC has put out.
HuffPo is subtle with their sexism like Donald Trump is subtle with his trolling.
Aqua-man was one of the first movies in a while where people were clapping at the end. It wasn't a standing ovation, but still it caught me by surprise. I enjoyed the movie. i wasn't bored or itching for it to be done. Jason M did a decent job of it as well. You have to expect that not every movie is going to be "Mississippi Burning" (which I really rate as up there damn good) or Forrest Gump.
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
...well boys really, seem to too depended on the rest of the world liking exactly what they like. They need some sort of validation that they aren't getting in their real lives. Or they're just anarchist trolls.....or both.
Who cares on which "side" they're on, if you're giving death threats because of some insecurities caused by someone else opinion you really need to get checked for mental issues.
the movies "Captain America: Civil War" and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" annoyed me because (for one reason) the main conflict could have been avoided if the characters had simply talked and listened to each other.
Half the episodes of Noddy: Toyland Detective are the same way, incidentally.
So some anonymous misogynists threatened to kill me. Click these links to learn more!
Come to think of it, Aquaman” is a great product name for lube.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Poor Bruce. How will he get by?
Alfred, get out the Bat-Scissors and start clipping coupons.
unless you are searching for attention? this movie is without doubt one of the best of the year
I remember a time where people weren't so outwardly disrespectful in such concentrated numbers. The vitriol is unbearable. Time to burn this Internet down and start a new one with some accountability built in. That anyone can get away with making death threats against someone expressing a respectful opinion is disgusting.
Parmasean Cheese. It's what's for dinner.
Oxymoron.
In other words, everyone should start writing inflammatory, divisive, polarizing texts
That would not inspire Love.
The fact that something may inspire Hate also, does not mean you should strive for Hate, you should always seek Love.
But in doing so, there will always be those moved the other way - what I am saying, is that one should realize that is OK as well, you should not seek polarization as a goal, it will happen regardless of intent if you have said anything interesting. You should always strive for clarity and purpose and strong intent, or why even write anything?
I mean, to flip what you are saying on its head - if people were to mellow writing as you seem to imply is desirable, they should write only the most bland inoffensive content. The should write so as to strip away all emotion until what was left was the thinnest of gruel that leaves the mind dissatisfied and ill-fed. What good is that to anyone? Most especially themselves...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
How The Fuck Is Cyber Bullying Real
It is real. But you are wholly in control of how much it affects you. That too is real. Words that you chose not to view have even less power over you. Do you claim otherwise?
Realize these simple truths, and you too will be free. The Haters may come, but they will be as the gentle rain to the duck upon the water. The harshest of online comments is truly a whisper compared to your own voice, when you chose to listen to yourself.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The ad said directly that "some" men were OK. That implies the rest, or majority, are not... how is that not an attack on men generally?
The whole ad had a condescending tone of an educational film you were forced to watch in school. Even ignoring that aspect though, clearly the ad is claiming most men harass women, which is simply not the case.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Why are those clowns called "social justice 'warriors'"? A warrior is someone who has made war their profession and are therefore ready, willing and able to fight. Those clowns are whiny bitches, and whenever they feel there is a hint of a threat of actual violence they put up their short, chubby arms and whimper. It's quite funny in a pathetic way.
In light of all this apparent gay bashing I'd just like to point out that our current president was the first in history to campaign on gay marriage.
He has also hired and appointed more women than any prior president.
Anyway, back to orange man bad...
not bad, just extremely stupid...
... anonymously harass cute female online columnist.
Next up: Water wet! Pope Catholic!
Lady, unless you're writing about beauty tips and have to rely on being a public figure yourself, use a friggin pseudonym when writing online.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Anytime someone makes a threat to you specifically, or to people close to you, you need to report it to the police and FBI. Although it is highly unlikely the abusers will be caught, it still helps to report this. Response from law enforcement will have much greater weight on horrible websites like Instagram to remove threatening content and ban abusive users. Police reports also help lawmakers determine how to address these issues, whether through new laws or even just funding anti-abuse non-profit organizations. Law enforcement reports make these incidents "official" when websites just ignore you.
The essential problem with a lot of the dialogue about internet "harassment" is that it ignores a few salient points.
The internet has zero barrier to entry for discussion. A ten year old girl can send death threats on the internet.
As social animals, human beings moderate entry to discussion on the basis of age, appearance, social class and intelligence. They use various signals to determine if a given individual is worthy of being granted entry into a dialogue.
Those signals are largely absent on the internet unless someone is using their real-world identity or they've built up an identity which has widespread credibility. Most internet discussions thus have no barrier to entry allowing children to participate as freely as Nobel prize winners. Anyone who seriously talks about "men harassing women" on the internet is a moron. It's children harassing anyone who crosses into their line of fire. I'd wager most "harassment" comes from teenagers who are delighted to find a medium in which they can exercise power in contrast to a society where they usually have very little.
Similarly, a sheltered Leftist college student with no experience of the real world is able - from the shelter of his safe space - to try and lecture real men who do society's dirty work. Normally these two groups would never engage because the sheltered college boy would be too despised to be granted entry to the dialogue of masculine men.
Thus, the conflict on the 'Net caused by a lack of social barriers and consequences. It's not hard to understand, it's just annoying to see the rampant stupidity written about it.
In the case of the article, the critic has no idea who is sending him death threats and his assumption that they are "men" is ludicrous. They're most likely teen DC fans spewing forth invective from the safety of their mother's basement. And some of them will be girls.
reading volumes of hate mail is starting to get in my head and cause me to consider the potential angry male ramifications
You can't push your way into a "male dominated industry" claiming that you're equal only to get inside and then start trying to differentiate yourself on the basis of your sex (or imagined sex). Well, you can, but not if you want to have any credibility.
Friends don't let friends huff post.
In american n1ggerstan stupid n1ggers are nazi. You stupid fuck are a clueless bitch.
Surely the author took the time to check their individual self-identifying genders before making that statement.
With that statement you demonstrate ignorance and bigotry all at once, kid. You also demonstrate that you have no legitimate argument when you resort to screaming "Nazi" to any who don't share your myopic, hate-filled views.
And before you try to fabricate anything, I'm not a republican nor am I a liberal. I have my own brain and stand on my own without the need for a political group (or any group, for that matter) to prop me up, thanks.
You live in a land with free speech.
Deal with it.
Get a gun to protect your self. Hand out guns to your family.
Oh, I got side tracked reading a hate thread on FB ... what did I want to say ...
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Enjoy using 72 gender pronouns, and then learning that none of them are interested in you.
Waaaa....someone threatened me on the intertoobs. Cwy baby Cwy. Fuck off! Man up! Tell the pricks to bring it. Dare them to come out of their mother's basement and stand in front of you and say something. They're pussies and so are you!
No it did not. You haven't watched the ad. Yo've just jumped on the internet outrage machine.
Unlike you, I carefully watched the whole ad, because I don't believe in just reading reactions. I need to see the source.
So I watched the whole thing through, very carefully. I honestly don't feel the ad is as bad as some are saying - in fact I probably would just say it was preachy, but OK, if they had not included that "some" remark...
If you start the ad at 1:00 exactly, this is what you hear:
To say the right thing, to act the right way. SOME already are.
I don't expect a full apology from you for not even bothering to re-watch a two minute ad to verify facts. But I do think you should take a hard look at your own mind, what led to the blind spot that made you miss that distinctive part of the video, so prominently placed.
I didn't read the rest of what you wrote because if you didn't even have that right, obviously the rest of what you said was based on false assumption so is incorrect.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Thank you for adding some intelligence, I used to love reading comments in Slashdot but now it makes me wonder what happened to humanity.
Nothing. Humanity has always been this way--or at least some particular humans have been.
Once ran across a line in a TV show: Character is how you act when you think no one is watching.
Anonymity is closely related to the "no one watching" situation, which is where the Internet Fuckwad Theory comes in:
* https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
Touché!
He didn't review Black Panther!
My whole life, I've run into people who take comic books way too seriously. I mean, I get it to an extent. For many people, this was the stuff that formulated their ideas of right and wrong, in childhood. And many people went on to embrace such things as the quality artwork that went into the more advanced graphic novels. There's even a whole social group that evolved around attending the comic conventions.
But you've gotta be able to step back from all of it and realize it's just make-believe. There's absolutely no sane reason to threaten a movie critic with their life because they wrote a negative review of a movie about a comic book character.
I don't believe this has a thing to do with a "mens' rights" crowd who feels Aquaman counters the evil that was Wonder Woman becoming a successful movie! A whole lot of guys I know got a big laugh about of the photoshopped pic passed around the Internet with Aquaman's star stuck at the bottom of the sea, dying, because he got one of those plastic rings stuck around his neck from the 6 packs of soda cans.
Maybe it takes a person who's actually been RL bullied (physically and with words) to know how to avoid feeling bad about being threatened online.
Here's the unspoken rules for those who weren't as "lucky":
If you cry, you lose. If you react angrily, you lose. If you're weak, you lose. If you tell the teacher (ie. higher authority), you lose. If you act put upon by telling everybody and your great uncle about it, you triple lose for showing your weaknesses to your friends *and* enemies wholesale.
Fortunately, there are a few tricks to coping online with harassment and bullying that would have failed IRL:
1. Ignoring them actually works because nobody's forcing you to read/watch/hear it. Perhaps block or ignore, move on. Remember that this person thinks you're a piece of shit, so why should you care about what their opinion of you is? Family and friends know you and care for you, ideally, so worry about what *they* think of you instead of some online nobody.
2. Laughing at it works even better because in all likelihood this isn't a psycho with a sawed-off shotgun ready to drag you behind a pickup truck speaking to you, it's probably an 11-year-old Internet Tough Guy who hasn't entered puberty yet (no, the sex of the perpetrator doesn't really matter, ITGs can be female, too).
3. If you can successfully troll them back, props and power to you, but I've never mastered this fine art. (Not Recommended)
People who "hate" you online are losers. By giving them attention, acting like they actually have the ability to emotionally or physically hurt you, you make them MORE powerful, not less.
There are rare exceptions, but 99.99999% of people online who claim to hate you or want to hurt you won't lift a finger.
Also, most of them aren't really racist, sexist or Nazis at all, they just like making you so paranoid that you can't sleep at night. There is no further purpose to a death threat or insults than making people miserable from anywhere in the world, because that's what trolls get off on, their perceptions of your misery. Even if they were Nazi or Communist, their very existence shouldn't trouble you either, there will always be shitty people in the world and statistically most of them won't trouble you either.
Don't give them that power so easily or you'll be running from bullies, real and imagined, for the rest of your life.
I don't get this strawman. If you want equal rights for EVERYONE not just women you haven't had sex?
Also what is this high school. Who gives a fuck. My dick has over 17 years on it. I've fucked some bad bitches in my time. It's gotten me nothing. I've been single for 7 years and I couldn't be happier.
So take your sex and your relationships and shove em up your ass.
And there it is. Angry male. I'll tall you, mate. I'm an angry male. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not going to hide or apologize or deny it. Bigotry against my sex and race has been blasted at me for decades and I'm sick of it.
I don't know what your review is and I don't know or care whether this is yet another in a long line of false flags, whether you're lying through your teeth, or whether 4chan took an interest in you.
I'm angry and I'm not alone. Another thing I am not is the out-of-control nutjob you and your ilk want to paint me as. Shove your libel so far up your ass that you taste it. Let me tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to vote. I'm going to write letters. I'm going to protest. I'm competent, informed, and capable of making a real difference. So keep drumming that narrative. I'm coming for your type and so are other angry white men. We're coming for your biased courts. We're coming for your unjust laws. We're coming for your bigotry and lies. We're not going to stop until every female supremacist is a laughingstock. Now quote-mine this and put it in a journal as a "threat". But that won't stop us or our allies. Nothing will.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
When I saw the news source "huffingtonpost", I already knew that it would be a SJW propaganda piece. Skipped to the end and confirmed the gender card being played. Slashdot has been a dumping ground for leftwing propaganda for years.
at all.
I mean how agitated or impressed do you have to be to write to some random journalist and actively critique their review?
As an alternatrive example, before Ebert died, he had written a negative review about videogames as a genre comparable to cinema. A friend wrote a counter argument to it, on his blog. He didn't bother sending it to Roger Ebert himself, assuming he would never get a reply nevermind have it read.
Turned out, despite only getting a few dozen views, mostly from friends, that someone on Eberts' staff discovered it, passed it up the chain, and he got a link and a formal reply on Ebert's website, which in turn lead to a few hundred or thousand views by random strangers. Nothing hateful since he was a white gamer nerd alcoholic.
The point this brings up is perhaps not the one I started with: Perhaps the issue with modern 'journalists/reviewers' is that they are too directly engaged with the public, whereas in the past part of that cold and impersonal demeanor was providing the gap needed both for their own objectivism and to keep the majority of otherwise lazy random hotheads from harassing them on a regular basis (obviously there are always a few people who have nothing better to do, but it has become a far bigger problem in the past two decades as internet viewership and the decrease in difficultly of submitting a polite or impolite reply has become.
> "potential angry male ramifications"
The simple fact is, trolls will attack anyone they perceive to be low-hanging fruit. And trolls can be anyone— male or female. Why should anyone trust anything a troll says, including that they may represent themselves as male? They will present themselves as anything that the target might find offensive. Only one thing can be safely said about trolls as a group: They want you to suffer. And they will pick targets who are more likely to publicly express anguish or outrage. For trolls this is a win. This is why women in the public eye are more likely to get death or rape threats— because they are likely to be goaded into responding publicly.
Fake news, I'm afraid. The Trump administration hasn't hired more women than previous administrations; in fact the percentages are worse than those of Obama, Bush or Clintons. Where the current administration does excel, however, is in boastful lies.Likewise the idea that Trump, who has spoken at anti-LGBTQ rallies, dismantled gay friendly policies, and continues to pursue actively hostile ones, is any friend of the gay community is laughable. Basically, people who claim otherwise are likely trolling to get the desired reaction, although wilful stupidity within their bubble is an outside chance.
... the joke's one them because Aquaman outright sucked.
This is just the next phase of the eternal september of 1993, first phase was just plain idiots getting it, now easily offended idiots have it.
You keep getting death threats because you are stupid. When you write critics, stay objective and use proper language. You used insulting opinions to describe things in your article. If you'd been a bit professional in your language usage (like any writer should), your critique would have been more than helpful to most people. Go back and read your article again in great details and imagine you're being criticized. How would it make you feel? And if you are a faithful fan, would you go and make death threats to the guy that wrote it?
Writer brings gender into review (Not so subtle dig at the writers being all male), surprised when criticism includes references to gender.
"I knew full well that male film critics who slagged on this same movie weren’t getting this kind of vicious feedback". Bet they did.
This person talks so much about gender that they see gender slights in everything.
"Being that Aquaman was aggressively marketed towards women"
It was supposed to make them wet?
If I were you I would avoid making any more jokes in public, and maybe see a consultant who specialises in adult diagnosis of autism.
And you just came to the conclusion that "the views of the left are hate filled" on your own, then?
Because that shit is straight up partisan "goodthink" nonsense, where "you need to stop shitting on minorities" is labeled "hate", and " people deserve livable wages " is labeled "theft"
You're a fucking Republican, dude.
that there were aquaman fans.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
The horde existed since the dawn of Internet. Hence the term Eternal September (I miss using HTML syntax :-) )
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
"well, I never!"
Oh look, it is a humorless church-lady. Don't stray too far from your feinting couch. Any more low-brow humor might afflict you with a case of the vapors.
the same losers using the same fascist tactics. incels are part of the same manufactured mob too.
the vast majority of them are complete fucking losers manipulated by actual nazis for political purposes. and they don't even bother trying to hide the similarities and connections between the different loser groups being manipulated.
"I get death threats for posting in comments of a website," see parent and grandparent. Definitely a much less noteworthy story but still pretty much the same, no real cause, no real end effect except this post slightly edited forever.
"My dick has over 17 years on it." "I've been single for 7 years and I couldn't be happier." You've been single since you were 10? Maybe you're marking dick-time differently, I don't know. Just a guess. Sounds more like you have mommy issues...
Did any male reviewers pan it? And if so, what was their threat load? As high? Higher? I wonder...(I'm going to reveal myself and say...I'd guess LOWER...but who knows, maybe Aq-man has a real die-hard following...)