I thought Facebook was the favored medium of mellifluous mewlers. Twitter was supposed to be the place for angry, politicized crowds, not for the “look at my pretty kitty” crowd. But it seems like Twitter is getting infected with the cutie-cute virus:
I’d much rather see a bunch of angry Berniebros* on Twitter than this kind of Miss Sunshine of the Unburdened Mind.
*I never encountered any of these legendary Berniebros anywhere online or in RL. I have started to think they are a myth.
I’ve encountered some of the mythical BernieBros on reddit. My solution? Stop going on reddit (at least certain areas of it.) They are such a small minority of the population that they should simply be ignored.
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Yeah, I have a distant friend who is a Bernie Bro… He was so verbose on Facebook and Instagram (Instagram! I didn’t even know that was possible), that I just muted/un-followed him… I’ll add him back after the election and see how it goes.
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I read sarcasm where you read sincerity.
But then again I don’t think of Sady Doyle as a generally sappy writer. shrug
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Sady Doyle is a freelance “journalist” and blogger who takes angry, self-pitying victim feminism to a whole new level. Think Amanda Marcotte, but ten times more deranged.
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Oh, you should see Doyle’s Twitter today! Some “feminist” wrote a tweet that basically amounts to “I’m so sick of white dudes that I don’t feel bad about the boy killed at Disney by the alligator because his father was negligent to have his son by the water” and Sady and the rest of these freaks that put themselves out there as feminists are turning the obvious backlash against this tweet into a feminist issue (with some whining about bros in there). I get that there’s plenty of vile stuff put out by non-feminists that does not receive the same vitriol, that feminist backlash exists, but this kind of nonsense does feminists no favors. And I say this as a feminist woman, but between Doyle and stuff like Shakesville – on Shakesville this week was the lovely implication that Jane Sanders was laughing at murder victims based on an out of context screen shot – I am pretty appalled by what is passing for feminist commentary online. I certainly don’t always agree with you, but I think it says a lot that I still check back on your blog after finding it on Feministe years ago. I don’t really follow other feminist blogs anymore (and in the late 2000s, I had many I followed regularly!).
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Thank you, this is very good to hear. And I agree that people often try to pass off the weirdest stuff as feminism. The alligator comment is so out there that it makes my hair stand on end. Feel what you may about the father, but does the little child deserve death? This is very wrong.
I didn’t see the post about Jane Sanders but it’s ridiculous that people would want to kick a politician when he’s so clearly down.
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“it’s ridiculous that people would want to kick a politician when he’s so clearly down.”
McEwan hates (literally) Bernie Sanders because she’s always seen him as a threat to Hillary’s candidacy — and still does.
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He was a threat, and a serious one. But one should try to be a graceful winner and not a pig. I hate this gleeful persecution of somebody who lost.
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