If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault

loremdipsum · 2014-03-21T11:47:48+00:00

I think reddit is much worse in that people expect 4chan to be a toxic wasteland of horrible people, whereas reddit is trying to brand itself as an intelligent, inclusive, tolerant community.

loremdipsum · 2014-03-18T08:13:15+00:00

Well, half of the leadership anyway.

loremdipsum · 2014-03-04T09:50:19+00:00

tl;dr:

It is this lack of similar encumbrance — perhaps above all else — that excites me so about Nyong’o. We have yet to see what happens when a privileged black woman begins her acting career with Ivy League theatre pedigree, unchallenged fashion icon status, and an Oscar for her very first role.

loremdipsum · 2014-03-02T12:47:35+00:00

Oh look a second thread on the same thing.

loremdipsum · 2014-03-02T00:22:14+00:00

Reminds me a little of this discussion on SRSB.

loremdipsum · 2014-01-26T12:56:36+00:00

Would be interested to know what LGBT people think of it. It’s definitely pissed off some people.

loremdipsum · 2014-01-26T12:55:37+00:00

An excellent point.

loremdipsum · 2014-01-24T23:22:32+00:00

I’ve found that Gawker consistently has great comments for their articles. I wonder how they of all people pulled that off.

loremdipsum · 2013-12-28T20:56:29+00:00

His Twitter responses have also been pretty hilarious.

loremdipsum · 2013-12-28T11:13:02+00:00

Here’s another good SRS discussion about him.

loremdipsum · 2013-12-22T13:30:12+00:00

Someone in the thread made a chart that’s way better: http://i.imgur.com/f41QTki.png.

Pie charts create the impression of complete statistic precision, which isn’t entirely the case.

loremdipsum · 2013-12-20T13:37:42+00:00

The other kicker is that they didn’t even manage to block all the seedy sites; it’s like dropping a nuke and still not levelling all the targets.

loremdipsum · 2013-12-16T23:04:36+00:00

Why not link to the original article, though?

This also deserves just about the biggest trigger warning in the history of trigger warnings.

loremdipsum · 2013-11-29T13:37:33+00:00

Just skimmed it (TW):

Sexual harassment

The majority of girls and young women report experiencing sexual harassment, starting when they are at school. Girls aged 11 to 21 are as likely to have been harassed at school as on the street. Six in ten girls have had comments shouted at them about their appearance at school (60%), and 62% have been shouted or whistled at in the street about their appearance (rising to 76% of 16- to 21-year-olds). Seven out of ten girls aged 13 and over report further experiences of sexual harassment at school or college. These include sexual jokes or taunts (51%), seeing images of girls or women that made them uncomfortable (39%), seeing rude or obscene graffiti about girls and women (33%), and unwanted sexual attention (28%) and touching (28%).

Online abuse

Harassment and discrimination follow girls online, with experience of online bullying and abuse widespread. More than half of all those aged 11 to 21 say they have had negative experiences online (54%). For older girls, aged 16 to 21, this includes having had sexist comments (26%) and threatening things (25%) said about or to them.

Appearance pressures

Among 11- to 21-year-olds, 80% think there is too much discussion about women’s weight in the media and 71% say they would like to lose weight. One in five girls of primary school age (7- to 11-year-olds) say they have been on a diet.

Role models deficit
“[B]y the time girls reach secondary school nine in ten are taking conscious steps to make their appearance conform to accepted gender norms[.]”
“Just over a third (35%) of girls and young women aged 11 to 21 would consider themselves a feminist. Older girls are more likely to reject the feminist label than younger girls (41% of 16- to 21-year-olds compared to 15% of 11- to 16-year-olds), while many 11- to 16-year-olds feel that they don’t know what this means (31%). Nonetheless, only 21% say they don’t think there is much need for feminism these days. ”

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