As long as #TwitterHatesWomen is trending, I thought I’d point out many of the ridiculous things women get banned for. @SamBarber1910 has a brilliant pinned thread where they are all together, but Sam is in private mode right now. Check back later.
Now before you say that terrorized is a strong word, let’s show you some of the replies women get when we speak up. Because #TwitterHatesWomen
Just search yourself right now, you’ll find something that looks like these. #TwitterHatesWomen
And when we fight back or complain, we are banned.
If women speak up we get called, well, you can see what we get called right here. Twitter will say this does not violate their TOS because #TwitterHatesWomen
Be a high profile woman like JK Rowling and you can expect this level and quantity of abuse.
One sad part is they silence our friends. People we share recipes with. Talk to about children. Console during heartbreak. Women are isolated, alone, all for speaking up. We lose our closest relationships. #TwitterHatesWomen
But the worst part of all of it, is once a woman is banned, she is erased from twitter history. Her past arguments done. Every word she ever uttered is deleted from the app. History will never show she existed. Her winning debates vaporized.
1. How many times does someone says “including others doesn’t hurt you”? We hear it all day long.
They are wrong. They know it. They don’t want you to know it.
2. Let’s start here. When women are a subset of women they cannot lay claim to anything that was separately a woman’s. In one linguistic sleight of hand, women have lost their individuality that determines who has control of something. Be it sports or prison or their name.
3. Now the woman is just a grumpy member of the group trying to keep something away from other WOMEN.
EVERY reason why we have separate spaces women is instantly wiped out with this trick. We are stunned.
We try to explain. We are sure it’s a misunderstanding.
Some civil rights movement. Targets the funding of a rape shelter if the women there dare be women only.
Women are allowed nothing for themselves in this movement. Nothing. Not even a shelter.
For those who say that this is rare and no one really thinks that. This is not rare and yes, this movement thinks that.
Nor is this theoretical. This shelter did get targeted because they dare to provide women a women only rape shelter. And they did get funding taken away.
69. The fly lords are getting more and more dangerous. If you don’t set limits people will keep testing the line. The adults need to come back into the room. This way lies very bad things.
Every unwanted pregnancy is a man’s responsibility. I propose we immediately pass laws to make men responsible for pain and suffering if they impregnate a woman against her will during consensual sex. AND child support.
And don’t tell me it’s the woman’s fault for men’s irresponsibility. Women can say yes to sex and no to impregnation.
And don’t tell me it’s the woman’s fault for choosing the wrong man.
Men want to make our lives heII, they can enjoy half the pain.
I want unwanted impregnation to be a tort. The man pays for the harm he did to the woman. He pays for her pain, suffering, stretch marks, incontinence, cutting, all of it. All of her lost wages. Lost career. Every penny. We don’t have a choice, they don’t have one.
66. The examples of things that the fly lords find to be transphobic are astonishing. Stating simple biological truths will get you put on their list.
They then pass the list around and include search terms so they can search for tweets to be outraged about and report.
67. Read that again. Fly lords are not reporting tweets that upset them, they are intentionally searching for tweets hoping to be upset. Trying hard to find anything to mass report.
They do this so they can control the public square.