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Men Call Me Things

Jill

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to spend a day in the glamorous life of a feminist blogger? Check out #mencallmethings on Twitter, which was started by Sady Doyle. (Trigger warning for rape, violence and misogyny).

xx your favorite lesbian hambeast

23 thoughts on Men Call Me Things

  2. I think there are lots of men who appreciate the perspective of sites like these. I’m sure I’ve disagreed with some things from time to time, but it’s good to hear contemporary feminist ideas from people who are my age as opposed to hearing about them from older activists who have gone big media and mainstream. Anyway, hang in there. Unfortunately I think a lot of times the anonymity of the internet makes far too many people, particularly men, loose themselves and vanish into id-land. I would try to ignore it if I could, but I would understand that it’s not easy.

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  8. Jill:
    Buffy the Baby Slayer is pretty good also.

    Is it wrong that I now aspire to be called that someday?

    No? Yes?

    In any event, that may be a Halloween costume I make for myself.

  9. This is reconfirming the lesson I have learned in the “Threat of the Day” thread: While a lot of these guys are hiding behind anonymity, a whole lot AREN’T. There are a lot of trolls being pretty blatant and brazen under their own names.

    What I find troubling are the women who are posting that they are only ever called lovely, sweet, tender terms of endearment by men… Lucky, lying, trolling or all of the above?

  10. Isn’t this the woman who wrote a completely inaccurate discription of Game of Thrones a month earlier?

  11. Is this Game of Thrones thing ever going to die? Clearly, because she wrote about your fandom toys in a way you don’t appreciate, she deserves rape threats. Every day. For the rest of her life. Of course.

    But, Buffy the Baby Slayer is sort of adorable.

  14. Raja:
    Isn’t this the woman who wrote a completely inaccurate discription of Game of Thrones a month earlier?

    Isn’t this the person comparing apples to… well, not oranges, those are at least both fruits… hmmm…

    Isn’t this the person comparing apples to freeway on-ramps?

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  18. If I never, EVER hear about that goddamn Game of Thrones again, it will be too soon. Some of us manage to go on when feminist bloggers write posts bashing our favorite books, TV shows, and movies.

    I mean really? The point of the hashtag is to show just how gendered, violent, and threatening the trolling posts and emails get, and how it can and sometimes does escalate into meat-space harassment. But do let’s talk about Game of Fucking Thrones.

  19. I must say, I was very excited about reading the posts on this hashtag, but since twitter is totally stupid, most of the posts are just “Read this!” or “This is problematic because I’m a man/radfems were mean to me once/women are totally bitchy” which is not nearly as interesting to read.

  20. Brian Schlosser: What I find troubling are the women who are posting that they are only ever called lovely, sweet, tender terms of endearment by men… Lucky, lying, trolling or all of the above?

    Some of them seemed to be trying to set up a contrast between the behavior of decent men with the behavior of Rapethreat McUrahambeast, but they weren’t saying things like “only” and “ever.”

  21. Brian Schlosser: What I find troubling are the women who are posting that they are only ever called lovely, sweet, tender terms of endearment by men… Lucky, lying, trolling or all of the above?

    I just took it to mean that these women have never gone out of their way to say anything even vaguely questionable, and are either ignorant of/perfectly content with their position in the patriarchy.

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