Social media sexual harassment

Interesting piece in The Atlantic.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/the-unsafety-net-how-social-media-turned-against-women/381261/

 

I don't normally comment in the Journalism Thread as one of the non-journos here but this was interesting timing as I've spent the last little while noticing that one by one, the women who were active participants on SJ have drifted away.

I don't know if most men are aware how misogynistic this site frequently is and this place is mild compared to most.

 

I agree- have observed male posters making women posters uncomfortable here.
Back in the "glory days."
YouTube is the Hell of the online commentariat, but at least there you know what you're in for.

 

Yeah, the other day someone asked if a woman with brain cancer was a 6.

That was a low point for this board.

 

I'm proud to say that I asked that. The low point for this board is when it started developing
a bit of political correctness.

Hell day in and day out the SI Etra newsletter must make women uncomfortable with their
play on words "Hot Clicks" and Swim Suit Extra. Here is a link to Fridays Swim Suit extra
featuring outtakes of Samantha Hoops.

http://www.si.com/swim-daily/2014/10/10/samantha-hoopes-outtakes-or-the-crazy-things-we-made-her-wear?xid=nl_siextra

 

The Random Images thread is an abomination.

 

Calling BS on this one. Just a few weeks back one of the long time female members of
SJ was harassing an obviously weight challenged Chris L

 

You're right. Because Sports Illustrated does something misogynistic, we all should follow suit. That logic always works.

As does this new rhetoric of attacking "political correctness" every time one is asked to adopt basic human decency.

 

Well, at least you spelled 6 right.

 

The height of humor is wishing a person would perish in a blaze of fire.