Today is the day when The Stupid rules. Do you love this kind of lists as much as I do?
However, the solution proposed to this situation by a lot of high-profile feminists with, it must be pointed out, a lot of relative privilege (including in many cases, but not limited to: cis privilege, white privilege, class privilege, urban privilege, thin privilege, religious privilege, and straight privilege). . .
Can you try to guess which specific situation elicited this list of “privileges” including the mystifying thin privilege and urban privilege? I bet you will never be able to figure this out. The “solution proposed to this situation by a lot of high-profile feminists with, it must be pointed out, a lot of relative privilege” has to do with whether Twitter should introduce a “report abuse” button.
I didn’t stick around that blog to figure out how being thin and urban makes you more (or less, who knows?) likely to want the a “report abuse” button on Twitter. You will have to discover that for yourself if you are interested.
All I can say is, really, what depravity wouldn’t those thin, urban, religiously privileged people stoop to! They need to keep their emaciated anti-countryside fingers off our Twitter accounts.
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I haven’t read the article you posted, but the twitter boycott is a response to a series of violence threats (rape, bombs) to women and Twitters & police slow response to do something about it (e.g. there was no report abuse button until now):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/23565145
It’s been all over UK media for several days now and in my opinion justifyingly so – it’s just not acceptable not to be taken seriously if you report such threats.
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Shouldn’t that be a thing for police to deal with rather than Twitter though? I don’t understand why it’s Twitter’s responsibility to ensure people don’t get threats. What next, go after their email accounts? Their ISPs? As vile as I find the knuckledraggers threatening people on Twitter, the “report abuse” solution suggested will only increase the problem of visible yet unpopular people being ganged upon – instead of receiving empty threats, their slightly-impolite/confrontational tweets will be reported as abuse (a thing that already happens with the report as spam button, even though it’s much easier to distinguish spam from nonspam than to decide what is and is not abuse) – and this has a far greater chance of getting unpopular people off Twitter.
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A better mechanism than a report abuse button would be something akin to Tumblr Savior, which would enable a user to block messages containing certain keywords from showing up. Twitter’s character limit and the lack of imagination many of these assholes have should make this work pretty well.
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I used to be thin but now I am weightier. I’d say I come in at about 70 kilos, much of which is muscle mass. Is there as special group I can join that will take care of me, pat me on the head and feed me sweet hay whilst I rest in my manger?
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