The Feminist View: Any Critical Response To A Woman's Publicly Posted Message Is Hate And "Troll-Siccing"
What I find is "uplifting" of women is treating them as we'd treat men -- that is, treating women as equals, which supposedly was the mission of feminism.
Unfortunately, today, as I often say, feminists tend to demand that women be treated as eggshells, not equals.
About that, here's one of my posts for today -- told in tweets. I got this one when I woke up this morning.
@amyalkon @instapundit everyone else spent today uplifting women & you sic a bunch of trolls on one instead. Disgusting.
— SarahTheRebel (@SarahTheRebel) March 9, 2017
It was in response to this tweet from yesterday -- which linked to Glenn Reynolds' link to this post I put up yesterday:
AMY ALKON: "Why Must Some Feminists Be So Patronizing?"... https://t.co/28XV0OnHr7 @instapundit (lovely day for an instalaunch - thx, Glenn!)
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) March 8, 2017
And I'll answer it with another tweet, from evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman (in response to the tweet embedded below hers):
Anyone of either sex can jump into your online conversation on Twitter. That's the point. https://t.co/JmxqyqLx9R
— Diana S. Fleischman (@sentientist) March 8, 2017
Diana Fleischman was responding to this tweet:
Hey tomorrow (IWD) would be a great day for dudes 2 not jump into every woman's online conversation.
— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) March 8, 2017
Also today & Thursday & maybe always..
Amazingly, the tweet about how I should "uplift" women by treating them like they're too fragile to deal with any sort of response to messages they put out publicly has this profile behind it:
Yet, according to her and other women, the International Women's Day Message is as follows:
Int'l Women's Day Message: We're Women, And We're Pathetic And Must Be Treated Like Newborn Baby Ducks
P.S. I've got screenshots of the tweets here. I have a pretty intense writing day, doing a few corrections on my book manuscript, so if any of these power feminists delete their tweets, please email me at adviceamy at aol, and I'll post the screen shots in place of the tweets.
Are any of these twits Moms or have real "adult" responsibilities?
Hard to believe they do and have the time to dwell on this trivial stuff.
Bob in Texas at March 9, 2017 7:21 AM
My mom is an intellectual badass -- though not professionally -- and does not back down from debate. Quite the contrary, in fact.
Amy Alkon at March 9, 2017 7:41 AM
Screenshots can be dissed as easily doctored.
Archiving seems to be the way to go for the moment. Case in point, someone is still having a hissy fit:
http://archive.is/q9tE4
Sixclaws at March 9, 2017 9:03 AM
Screenshots can be dissed as easily doctored.
Archiving seems to be the way to go for the moment. Case in point, someone is still having a hissy fit:
http://archive.is/q9tE4
Sixclaws at March 9, 2017 9:04 AM
What were they doing tweeting on IWD? they were creating "content" for The Man (@jack). I thought they were supposed to be abstaining from paid and unpaid work to show how much the rest of the world would miss them.
How's that phrase go? frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Alternatively, if you don't work, you don't eat. Oh, right, mansplaing.
How are they coming in eliminating the Death Gap?
I R A Darth Aggie at March 9, 2017 9:17 AM
Jack is pretty much a punching bag for everyone to put the blame on everything that is happening on Twitter.
http://www.recode.net/2016/8/11/12417064/twitter-stock-ownership-takeover-acquisition-challenges
Sixclaws at March 9, 2017 9:31 AM
Jack is pretty much a punching bag
Well, when you're the most visible face in the company you shouldn't be surprised when people metaphorically punch you in the face for things you've done (or didn't do).
But I suppose you are right. In light of your linkie, I'm going to go with were creating "content" for The Men (Ev Williams, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, Steve Ballmer, Jack Dorsey, and Peter Fenton).
I wonder how the prince feels about women's rights?
I R A Darth Aggie at March 9, 2017 10:53 AM
So, it is compulsory to uplift women on this dubious protest day, even if you don't agree it is a good idea, just because you are female and if you are male, and I quote "shut up".
None of this thinking for oneself is to be allowed.
cc at March 9, 2017 11:03 AM
Twitter has changed the rules Amy.
Twitter now says "randos" jumping into conversations can be harassment.
https://blog.twitter.com/2017/our-latest-update-on-safety
"Leveraging our technology to reduce abusive content
We’re working to identify accounts as they’re engaging in abusive behavior, even if this behavior hasn’t been reported to us. Then, we’re taking action by limiting certain account functionality for a set amount of time, such as allowing only their followers to see their Tweets. For example, this change could come into effect if an account is repeatedly Tweeting without solicitation at non-followers or engaging in patterns of abusive behavior that is in violation of the Twitter Rules."
Who knows what "repeatedly" means, and who knows how fairly and across the board this policy will be applied?
So while Twitter started as a great equalizer who value came because randos could tweet politicians, stars, news figures, their unsolicited questions and opinions, or enter any twitter conversation, now that very behavior can be used by twitter to time you out, limit your reach, suspend you, or ban you.
jerry at March 9, 2017 11:35 AM
Correction on the above, "randos" has nothing to do with it, though I expect it to be used more against randos than the twitter famous people. But the policy can be used against anyone who jumps into conversations.
Folks used to be able to keep others out by
using group direct messaging
protected accounts
muting and blocking
But now Twitter has added
"STAY IN YOUR LANE AND CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE AND DON'T TALK BACK NO ONE HAS TIME FOR YOUR NONSENSE ANYWAY AND YOU WEREN'T INVITED INTO OUR VERY IMPORTANT CONVERSATION!!"
Making it more of a modern mighty wurlitzer of the regressive left.
jerry at March 9, 2017 11:43 AM
SarahTheWhinyMillennial would be a more fitting Twitter handle.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 9, 2017 11:56 AM
The Daily Signal appears to agree with you, Amy:
‘A Day Without a Woman’ Strike Promotes Idea of Women as Helpless
mpetrie98 at March 9, 2017 1:33 PM
Amy, I don't know if you saw this, but it's hilarious.
The Twitter account @womensmarch tweeted this stark raving idiocy from Nelini Stamp, of the Working Families Party (whatever that is), "Women birth half the population and we are half the population."
No, you women birthed all the population. That's entirely your gig. We men want no part of it.
Patrick at March 9, 2017 1:44 PM
I tweeted a response to Ijeoma Oluo. I said, "Listen very closely: You are not special. You are not privileged. You do not get to choose days when men can't respond to you."
Her fans are just unloading on me now.
Although one person gets the point. She said, "I have to agree with this. If you don't want people responding to you, maybe don't post on social media?"
Patrick at March 9, 2017 2:30 PM
Intersectional feminism has proven that adult women are delicate princesses.
Brilliant.
Jeff Guinn at March 9, 2017 5:03 PM
So, it looks like "Sarah the Rebel" is advocating violence against men (or at least one man) in that picture.
Just how would she feel/react if someone posted a pictures with the genders reversed?
I bet she'd call the cops.
charles at March 9, 2017 5:17 PM
Yeah.
I told her to go make me a sandwich, and she blocked me. What a wuss.
Steven Daniels at March 9, 2017 5:38 PM
"I told her to go make me a sandwich"
I think that's funny.
Then again, I have a sense of humor. And I think playing on ideas about the way we've traditionally seen men and women is fun -- and funny.
Amy Alkon at March 9, 2017 8:09 PM
"Making it more of a modern mighty wurlitzer of the regressive left."
I LOL'ed... Mighty Wurlitzer indeed. Probably has one of those consoles that has all kinds of filagrees and seven or eight manuals, but only two of them are actually connected to anything.
Cousin Dave at March 10, 2017 10:43 AM
"feminist."
yeah. awalt.
patriarchal landmine at March 19, 2017 7:30 PM
Old light bulb joke...
Q: how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY.
Casey at March 19, 2017 10:25 PM
I jokingly told my girlfriend to go make me a sandwich. She razzed me back, and I told her, "Hey, it's the least you can do. Men do the dirty jobs, we build things..."
She laughed and told me to take the trash out, and hang the picture like she asked last week.
Well played, miss, well played indeed.
Criticas at March 20, 2017 12:00 PM
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