I am a 15-year-old girl. Social media is full of vile misogyny(theguardian.com) |
I am a 15-year-old girl. Social media is full of vile misogyny(theguardian.com) |
I do think social media bans are a good idea, but women have agemcy in this society, online or not. Ladies, you have power. Use it. You can just leave. Have a global women’s strike on social media for 24h, 48h, a week. Your bodies, minds and creativity is largely what men (and women) come to social media for (maybe apart from nerds like in HN, but I’m talking addiction economy’s mega apps, not geek forums). Without it all these platforms are just stinking gym locker rooms full of guys who never surpass mental maturity of a 13-year-old.
> Wha would you have? Bunch of dumb as shit dudes talking about sports and how much they hate women/immigrants/trans/gay/black/asian/[insert rest of humanity] -people. Things would change very fast.
I think people like that would post a lot of pictures of women, some of which may be real pictures of people (even though in this hypothetical that would be without their consent), some of which may be AI-generated; so unfortunately, I don't think it would shift anything.
Self-entitled jerks don't stop being so when faced with the consequences of their actions, they victim-blame. The men who are able to be better than you describe, and I hope I'm better than that, may not even realise something is amiss during such a strike until it gets pointed out to them.
It is basically why girls get in free in some (seedy) clubs. And when the companies have to choose between women and rest of the population that showers every day or some really sad bunch of incels, they will choose the former.
I think it would be worth a try.