Richard White, the former site owner and moderator of the now infamous Don’t Start Me Off! claimed in Friday’s Guardian that “we never try to hurt people’s feelings.” * * * In his sniveling non-apology to Professor Mary Beard, who has recently been the victim of the DSMO hate mongers, White also stated: “We do not go out to be offensive”. * * * He then implied that the only reason Beard had seen the vile comments about her was because she’d obviously gone on to the Internet specifically to look for them. * * * According to White, the trolls at DSMO were never actually trolls in the true Internety sense of the word because they never went after anyone off the site. They didn’t for instance harass anyone on…
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Just in case you missed it, Elly Tams, aka Quiet Riot Girl, aka one of the very few people to have ever earned the dubious honour of being blocked from commenting here, has a piece up at the MRA site ‘A Voice for Men’ entitled “Leaving the Sisterhood.” And sorry but no, I’m not going to and never will link to that site, so if you want to read the piece you’ll have to let google be your friend. In the piece QRG uses up an awful lot of words to explain to the virulent misogynists who frequent the cesspit of hate that is A Voice for Men why she’s no longer a feminist – although evidence that she ever was a feminist is…
Last Friday Wales and Sheffield United striker Ched Evans was convicted of rape and given a five year sentence. By Sunday lunchtime the hashtag #justiceforched had started trending on Twitter, and not only had the victim in the case been subjected to some of the most heinous misogynist abuse imaginable, she’d also, in complete contempt of UK law which grants lifetime anonymity for rape survivors, been publicly named. A quick glance through the hashtag feed (if you can stomach it) shows how rape culture is alive and well in this country. It also shows how completely ignorant so many people are of the laws on rape, specifically the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and the statutory definition of consent that’s contained within it: “Section 74…
Some of you may remember a piece I wrote at the end of December where I mentioned that I was being followed on Twitter by someone calling themselves The Missing Minister. Here’s a link to the piece – So much for the season of goodwill Now at the time I thought that Twitter account had something to do with Reece Wilkes, or if it wasn’t him, someone who was allied to the same MRAs as him. You know the ones I’m talking about, those men’s rights activists who are constantly bleating on about how white men are the only real oppressed group in society and how women have all the privilege and yada yada yada…. Well anyway, it turns out it isn’t young Reece…
Trigger warning I’ve been mulling over whether or not to post about this for a while now, just over a month in fact, but a discussion on Comment is Free yesterday finally persuaded me to go ahead with it. The discussion was under Sunny Hundal’s piece about TubeCrush – The dubious joys of perving over fellow passengers online, where I questioned someone who claimed to find it odd that anyone would object to being photographed and having their photo uploaded to the Internet without their prior knowledge. I asked: “Do you not think there’s an enormous difference between being looked at/appraised as you go about your business, and being photographed and that photo then being uploaded to the Internet for goodness knows how many…
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