any "social media". It would please me greatly if they'd all just go away. I don't include DU in that category, of course.

And no, I don't find ANY abuse to be "socially acceptable". I definitely support your
original op here.

whatever value there is is so minimal compared to the maximal filth, it’s not redeeming at all.

Whether you want to include it or not - it fits the basic definition of social media.

It's a heavily moderated, though for likeminded content. A place like Twitter is not heavily moderated (for good or bad).

Large social media companies don't want to pay to train, support, and retain enough people to do the job.

Every once and a while I get an urge to stop by - mostly still feel too stifled by the rules here to stick around.

on Twitter, along with the comment that she'd prefer to get the kind of hate mail that her male colleagues are typically subject to.

Nobel Laureates getting hate speech….for??

Being too intelligent I guess? Being too intelligent and being a woman?

Yes, ofc. But also because The Hate is for any woman daring to be recognized as being more intelligent than the men in their basements who have nothing better to do than to prove their subfloor intelligence on the Twitter machine that permits them the delusion of these ridiculous texts…not even real writing… being meaningful.

Thanks for nothing Twitter.

a few also had porn videos on their twitter feed

twitter banished a couple, but most were left to continue doing what they were doing (including with their porn crap) (ugh!)

It is so widespread and has poisoned so many minds that there are boards filled with young men talking about how damaging and addictive it is, and many young women are leaning towards radical feminism as a reaction to their experiences with porn sick men, and I am so, so very happy about that. So, bright side

And people were posting his columns here. And people were defending Andrew Cuomo here, even suggesting that his accusers were part of a plot.

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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, though. Does someone defending Cuomo and/or using the c word here somehow have some bearing on whether Twitter should get a pass for allowing misogynist content to stand? Because I certainly don't think so.

I will continue this comment in a separate reply, for reasons that will be explained. Watch this space.

I would personally be very pleased to see misogynistic slurs like the c word and the one that is used by dog breeders to refer to the female of that species be banned at DU as I don't think they serve any legitimate purpose here.

I'm putting this in a separate comment, because I voiced a similar entiment here once before and got "rewarded" by having my post hidden for "interfering with forum moderation." If someone alerts on this comment and it gets hidden, hopefully the previous one will be allowed to remain.

Misogyny is everywhere.

And get no reply

Went through this multiple times back in the day. Until society changes, it won't change. Most people on the left are ok with hate speech against women.

Have said it before but misogyny is just as commonplace on the left as the right, the only difference is where they want to place the boot on our necks. The right considers us private property, the left, public. The right wants to control our bodies with removal of bodily autonomy. The left wants to maintain the social acceptance of sexual objectification and commodification of female bodies (I say 'female' and not 'women's' because it's also targeted at preteens - e.g. 'barely legal' porn)

I didn't realize it till I started writing the above post, but I'm still salty af about that hide. I had to word that comment very carefully because the saltiness kept trying to come through.

And I put this here so the defenders see their words were no better than the misogyny on Twitter.

I missed it at the time. She apparently uses a homophobic slur freely, and when confronted about it she said something along the lines of as long as y'all are using the B word like you own it I will continue and not care about anyone complaining. She's a weird one but she has a good point here.

I wouldn't have done it that way. But I did point out the similarity to the N word. People still fought me. One excused the use of the C word by pointing out the rude one is a good writer. I still half tune him out when he's on Stephanie Miller's show.

He has stopped using it, though.

If these people actually cared about the welfare of women, they'd come correct and speak openly and loudly.

They grudgingly give up this stuff. Which says all we need to know

Thanks for clarifying.

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according to Katha Politt, feminist writer and contributor to The Nation.

You can see it here on DU, at times.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

But I totally agree.

or old people, so