One Week of Harassment on Twitter
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One Week of Harassment on Twitter
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#4Scary to think that the venn diagram of young gamers and future programmers is pretty substantial.
The ratio of men/women in college was pretty abysmal. This may not be the exact cause, but it certainly doesn't help the cause. Truly is a shame that so much talent is driven to other fields due to lack of basic social skills.
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#5Anonymous free speech can sure bring out some ugly things in people. Freedoms, though, often cut both ways, protecting important and significant behaviors but also sometimes allowing sad and pathetic ones.
I think it would be delicious punishment if the author of each of those tweets were forced to read them out loud, in front of their mothers, sisters, wives, friends, bosses, coworkers, and children. If someone's willing to send messages like that to a real life person, they should see how people in real life react to their hate spew.
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Twitter is mostly public, so it is really a case of self-shaming on the part of the abusive commenters.
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Despite protestations to the contrary, white men do not receive this level of abuse. In brief spurts maybe, especially if they dare to support someone like Anita, but sustained like this? No.
So maybe, just maybe, there's a cultural problem to be discussed.
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No, I think "the messed up part about the whole situation" is the inexcusable harrassment she is subjected to.
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#9Scary to think that the venn diagram of young gamers and future programmers is pretty substantial. The ratio of men/women in college was pretty abysmal. This may not be the exact cause, but it certainly doesn't help the cause. Truly is a shame that so much talent is driven to other fields due to lack of basic social skills.
oh fuck off. social skills is not the issue here.
(and I'll happily take any down vote for saying so. The cause and effect of this whole thing is a whole lot more complicated than youre giving it credit for)
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The thing is this small minority is still a large group of people harassing constantly a very small group of people day in and day out. Long after this all old news and we've all forgot about it, these women will still be harassed.
I understand what it's like to be harassed online by a mentally unstable person. It's bad enough when one person does it. I couldn't imagine a dozen. A hundred is inconceivable. And thousands... I just don't know.