Sadly The Story Stays The Same: The Harrowing Ordeal Of Being A Woman With An Opinion Online
I’ve talked about this before, and shared this sort of thing before, and I’ll keep doing it again and again. People deserve to have their opinions discussed online without their gender being brought into it or having it frame the conversation.
I’m guilt of failing that this week; not that I used sexist language that I failed to comment when someone else did.
It was the aftermath of the pepper spraying and commentator Megyn Kelly used the “It’s a vegetable, essentially!” comment. A woman busted out the C word in reference to her in the comments, and I almost corrected her on using that term; but I didn’t. I didn’t feel it was my place as a man to correct a woman on sexist language usage. To tell her it was unacceptable. I felt I would be an interloper, I would be Mansplaining. How could I a Man have any notion of what was or wasn’t acceptable, and think I could lecture a Woman on appropriate language? So I shut my mouth, deleted the post without sending and I let it slide. Realizing it was wrong, letting it lower the discourse, and yet still I didn’t do anything.
Ms. Kelly’s opinions on topic A or B didn’t matter in that moment, to just resort to gender-based personal attack insults make us all the worse. I was wrong that day, and for that I’m sorry. I should have said something.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/laurie-penny-a-womans-opinion-is-the-miniskirt-of-the-internet-6256946.html “For criticising neo-liberal economic policymaking, it was suggested I should be made to fellate a row of bankers”
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Laurie Penny: A woman’s opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet
You come to expect it, as a woman writer, particularly if you’re political. You come to expect the vitriol, the insults, the death threats. After a while, the emails and tweets and comments containing…
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by curmudgeony on November 26, 2011 at 8:28 amSadly The Story Stays The Same: The Harrowing Ordeal Of Being A Woman With An Opinion Online
I’ve talked about this before, and shared this sort of thing before, and I’ll keep doing it again and again. People deserve to have their opinions discussed online without their gender being brought into it or having it frame the conversation.
I’m guilt of failing that this week; not that I used sexist language that I failed to comment when someone else did.
It was the aftermath of the pepper spraying and commentator Megyn Kelly used the “It’s a vegetable, essentially!” comment. A woman busted out the C word in reference to her in the comments, and I almost corrected her on using that term; but I didn’t. I didn’t feel it was my place as a man to correct a woman on sexist language usage. To tell her it was unacceptable. I felt I would be an interloper, I would be Mansplaining. How could I a Man have any notion of what was or wasn’t acceptable, and think I could lecture a Woman on appropriate language? So I shut my mouth, deleted the post without sending and I let it slide. Realizing it was wrong, letting it lower the discourse, and yet still I didn’t do anything.
Ms. Kelly’s opinions on topic A or B didn’t matter in that moment, to just resort to gender-based personal attack insults make us all the worse. I was wrong that day, and for that I’m sorry. I should have said something.
Reshared post from +Navi G.
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Laurie Penny: A woman’s opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet
You come to expect it, as a woman writer, particularly if you’re political. You come to expect the vitriol, the insults, the death threats. After a while, the emails and tweets and comments containing…
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