“Mashers” also tended to get stabbed with hatpins.
https://thedollop.libsyn.com/213-mashers-and-hatpins
If you click through to the game site and visit the About page, you can see a seven-minute playthrough of the game. And wow, is it creepy.
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This isn’t a direct reply to your post; I merely hit the wrong “reply” button, lol.
Usual caveats to say I’ve had great make bosses and shitty female bosses. But still.
Holy fuck, this is rage inducing…
It’s jezebel, so the website is glitchy as hell, etc.
h/t to the Brexit discussion here:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/08/case-nightmare-blonde.html
Well, if it’s compulsory, I guess that’s just what has to be done.
Woah Nelly! That’s batshit crazy acting shit.
The article is good. WW is not.
How long have we been fighting dangerous body-image in kids? Long as I can remember.
I’m sort of confused about what this actual blow up in 2008 was.
I read Shakesville quite a bit for a while. As the article notes, basically up until Google Reader died. I’m not sure that I buy the echo chamber is necessarily the worst thing about Twitter vs. Reader/Blog Internet. I think it’s losing the ability to connect with long-form writing and dig deep into a topic. (Incidentally, I sort of think this article could have benefited from more synthesis of an overall narrative.)
Some of the things in that article are really problematic. How on Earth did that Paul guy think it was OK to ask a flat busted person for their last money? But I also agree with this:
One thing I’ve felt personally, and very keenly, is the long term grind down associated with being harassed. I hadn’t really followed Shakesville or McEwan in a good, long time now. But the extent to which people on Blog Internet were confronting the precursors to the battles we’re fighting on a much bigger and more public stage now is really shocking in retrospect. MRAs, incels, Nazis spent decades honing an internet rage machine, before turning it loose IRL. I have a hard time judging the early victims.
McEwan really got to the Enemies are Everywhere stage – IMHO she should have stepped off the stage and gone into self-care mode a lot sooner than she did. I stopped following her when I noticed she was even snapping at people who were agreeing with her.
I hope she has a chance to rest, heal, and get to a better place.
This I agree with. OTOH, we, too (and even at the other place) have rules that seemed to be mocked in the Outline piece.
We aren’t fans of ableist language, either. I fought to get “mental state” enshrined into this section of the BBBBS rules
Do not make assumptions as to anyone’s mental state, race, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs, group affiliation or sexual orientation without corroboration.
Because too many people were diagnosing violent people and/or members of the current administration as being mentally ill.
Not hard to do when the Internet has designated you as its chew toy. It sounds like she was at the “no good options” stage: leave, and the harassers claim victory, stay and, well…
What pisses me off is that she’s radioactive, and Bret Stephens is still employable.
True that. I really worry about this in academia. I have so many friends who are so paranoid, so angry. They lash out at trainees of people who hurt them. Where does all this hurt go, and how do we help people self-correct before they spin out?