i once asked a friend who works with deradicalisation projects why online misogyny isn't viewed as a site of potential violence in the same formal way considering how many women are killed by men and... we did not come up with any non-depressing answers, surprisingly
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men dont hate women because of tumblr any more than men hated women because of bobbed hair or short skirts or food processors or the charleston. try again fucko.
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and you don't have to like it to admit it isn't a cause of misogyny. i find loads of online culture tedious or outright damaging, but the damage that it does is internal and it is not a cause of misogyny, which literally starts in the home and is then encouraged everywhere
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some things will annoy you because you are sexist and something things will annoy you because they are just annoying and some things will annoy you because they make it harder for you to talk about sexism in the way you need to but NOTHING is so annoying it will *make* you sexist
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anyway i have to go back to work please do not write any hot takes in the meantime
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