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...abuse women in real life?
The answer is; of course they do.
I couldn't agree with Marcotte any more than I do.
"But there’s virtually no evidence for the contention that men who harangue and harass women online are generally meek pussycats afraid to express their contempt for women in real life. On the contrary, the likelier theory is that the rapists, wife beaters, ass-pinchers, and men who cat-call women on the street are also the men who perform similar misogynist behaviors online. In fact, we know in some cases that they are absolutely the same men, since some online forums for misogynists are dedicated to men who chronicle their offline harassment of women with photographs (called “creepshots”) and post them online for other misogynists to enjoy. Rebecca Watson, whom Douthat mentioned as a favorite target for abuse from online harassers, became a favorite target of abuse because of her work fighting to make it harder to harass women offline. But it’s also just common sense. The guy who yells, “I would fucking kill you, bitch!” to a woman on the subway is probably the same guy who goes home and yells it, through Twitter, at dozens of women who have committed the same offense of being female in public. The man who hits his wife for backtalk is probably the same guy who can’t help but get unhinged and ugly to strange women online whose unwillingness to be submissive offends him."
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Today we have one thread banning. I hesitate to ban anyone as I want to see all your ugly! Show it to the world! However, yesterday ILA proved that he cannot be trusted not to crap all over the carpeting and must be kept in his cage until his mommy and daddy owners get home. So sadly, I had to ban him. Not to stifle his speech, but because he utilizes tools and functions of this board in order to actually make threads unreadable. I think it's rabies, but, I'm not a veterinarian so this is just a guess.
The answer is; of course they do.
I couldn't agree with Marcotte any more than I do.
"But there’s virtually no evidence for the contention that men who harangue and harass women online are generally meek pussycats afraid to express their contempt for women in real life. On the contrary, the likelier theory is that the rapists, wife beaters, ass-pinchers, and men who cat-call women on the street are also the men who perform similar misogynist behaviors online. In fact, we know in some cases that they are absolutely the same men, since some online forums for misogynists are dedicated to men who chronicle their offline harassment of women with photographs (called “creepshots”) and post them online for other misogynists to enjoy. Rebecca Watson, whom Douthat mentioned as a favorite target for abuse from online harassers, became a favorite target of abuse because of her work fighting to make it harder to harass women offline. But it’s also just common sense. The guy who yells, “I would fucking kill you, bitch!” to a woman on the subway is probably the same guy who goes home and yells it, through Twitter, at dozens of women who have committed the same offense of being female in public. The man who hits his wife for backtalk is probably the same guy who can’t help but get unhinged and ugly to strange women online whose unwillingness to be submissive offends him."
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Today we have one thread banning. I hesitate to ban anyone as I want to see all your ugly! Show it to the world! However, yesterday ILA proved that he cannot be trusted not to crap all over the carpeting and must be kept in his cage until his mommy and daddy owners get home. So sadly, I had to ban him. Not to stifle his speech, but because he utilizes tools and functions of this board in order to actually make threads unreadable. I think it's rabies, but, I'm not a veterinarian so this is just a guess.