Feminist Twitter is very confused abt #WomenBoycottTwitter. Mostly inclined to seek different reasons to be offended by it.
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It was suggested that she was really banned for being a woman who dared to speak up about sexual harassment.
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Then lots of people replied that women silencing themselves was not the way to protest (the claim that) women were being silenced.
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Some were not satisfied with calling this a misjudgement but accused it of being another attempt to silence women probably started by men
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To be fair, this was probably in response to the number of men who used the hashtag to say 'Feminists are shutting up for a day? Excellent.'
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Then Black feminist Twitter decided that the hashtag was white privilege because no-one ever cares when they get silenced or abused online.
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Then ppl got very confused & forgot what is was about in the first place & demanded why no-one boycotted Twitter when Trump got elected.
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Anyway... I am mostly here to confirm my absence as work-related & not a boycot of Twitter (as if that were remotely likely). Off again now
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