History of Feminism
Related: About this forumInternet trolls an online nightmare for young women
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Its systemic; its on all levels, agrees Alice Marwick, an assistant professor of communication and media studies at New Yorks Fordham University. When you live in a culture that sexualizes young women overwhelmingly, it is not very surprising that, when you give young women the tools to objectify themselves, they use them in the same way.
But the onus of responsibility for whats happening online is on the young men. Even if girls are posting scantily clad pictures of (themselves) on the Internet, its not an invitation for sexual violence, comments or hate speech.
Last fall, when Gawker.com outed Violentacrez, one of Reddits more active contributors of creepshots and racism, porn, gore, misogyny, incest, and exotic abominations yet unnamed, the world learned of how unsuspecting young women were subject to dirty uncle activities on the content aggregation site. And not an obscure site. Its owned by the publishing giant Condé Nast, which also produces The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Architectural Digest.
The year 2012 may well go down in cyberhistory as the one in which the world realized it had created a socio-cultural nightmare, one made up of accumulated years of media objectification of girls combined with a generation of boys who can just Google NSFW fill-in-your-fetish-of-choice for free porn online, anytime, anywhere.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1317081--internet-trolls-an-online-nightmare-for-young-women
Interesting article. To say the least.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)I was thinking since a lot of it was quotes, and not most of the written article it would be ok. So I edited it a bit. Should have been more careful.
It's a good read
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)do it when i see people all over the fuckin board going all out. i try. a sentence isnt a paragraph. but, seems the new way to go after us.
redqueen
(115,096 posts)Interesting.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)parents. the writer is saying she too often go to the girls saying, what are you thinking. that she puts it on the girls.
parents. i put it on the parents and reading thru the article i was thinking, where the fuck are the parents. why havent the parents addressed this with the girls, giving them the tools they need.
redqueen
(115,096 posts)That's why no matter what happens to girls and women, the first instinct is to blame the girls and women.
Domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape... Most of the time, people will look for ways to blame the women.
So many girls and women think feminism is a dirty word, and that feminists are women who hate sex and want to be superior to men.
The reason, of course, is patriarchy. Most people do not see it... so how can they teach anyone that this shit is more than individual conflicts? If you see it as a case of it being just a few assholes, and tell girls to ignore them and they'll go away... Well? What else can anyone expect?
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4051
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)And I agree; when the US male (and females) looks over at patriarchy in India, or Pakistan or China, they'll shudder at publicized atrocities without recognizing the root cause is part and parcel of Western culture as well.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)they do not want to hear.
if a person does not want to see the reality of the world we are creating, (and their silence and unknowing is part of the creation), then how can they tell me i am wrong. it makes no sense to me. but, the people that would not allow, challenge, call out just do not want to know what is going on.
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)But it's more a lazy self satisfaction. Apparently, If one doesn't experience it directly, it goes to either the category of fantasy (not true, made up) or denial (not true despite evidence)
You Push, THEN it's its anger masking fear. Yet you'll notice this apparent need to be noticed, right? So in comes the snark or aggression or passive-aggressive ways of being noticed, without added to the conversation, offering no solutions, no actual discussion.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)it really believe it is this mentality. if they do not know the reality of something, they do not have to expend energy or feel bad.
i prefer truths.