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This is long one....if you dont have a few mins...move to the next thread...


I realise I should have expected it from logging on to the Gruaniad website, but the following article has me seething...


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/26/women-misogynist-trolls-feminist-internet



A short rant required...


1. So now we have research which shows the the majority of 'misogynist' abuse towards women on the internet comes from young women, not from men. According to the article "now we know many trolls are young women, the searchlight shines on schools? failure to look after children?s well-being". Because, previously, when we thought it was mostly men throwing the abuse, we just thought the men need to learn to control themselves. Now we have to find someone other than the abusers to blame...

2. When referring to male online abusers, the author repeatedly refers to them as 'Sad, Angry Men'; but the implication is that the young women committing the abuse are lovely middle-class princesses; corrupted by the evil patriarchal world

3. The study reveals 10,000 messages in the UK with these abusive terms, so of the ~12m or so internet users and millions of twitter messages, its a drop in the ocean. But of course the PC brigade cant stand by without a parliamentary campaign. We all know there arent any other issues that our politicians could be focusing on.


Don't get me wrong, I'm against any form of abuse, online or otherwise, it just winds me up when a national publication publishes this tripe in the name of 'social justice'....


Rant over. Sorry you had to bother reading if you even got this far.

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If you want to see hoards of the generally female, mostly white, reasonably educated but not the sharpest tools in the box rabid trolls have a look at the Food Babe Army along with the rest of the David Wolfe groupies, antivaxxers, homeopathy, etc crowds. Quite a lot of them would be Guardian readers too.

root Wrote:

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> If you want to see hoards of the generally female,

> mostly white, reasonably educated but not the

> sharpest tools in the box rabid trolls have a look

> at the Food Babe Army along with the rest of the

> David Wolfe groupies, antivaxxers, homeopathy, etc

> crowds. Quite a lot of them would be Guardian

> readers too.


Just scroll through the EDF for that I'd say!

Or is this a mysogynistic post in itself? Discuss

binkylilyput Wrote:

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> root Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > If you want to see hoards of the generally female,

> > mostly white, reasonably educated but not the

> > sharpest tools in the box rabid trolls have a look

> > at the Food Babe Army along with the rest of the

> > David Wolfe groupies, antivaxxers, homeopathy, etc

> > crowds. Quite a lot of them would be Guardian readers too.

>

> Just scroll through the EDF for that I'd say!

> Or is this a mysogynistic post in itself? Discuss


Simple answer: No.


More complex answer: No.

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