I am enormously privileged in the way I navigate this space and still, being a woman on the internet is a constant stream of being patronised, insulted, belittled and threatened, and I... don't have to put up with it! Sometimes I forget that. Maybe you do too.
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But maybe I don't have to spend hours of my life in a space where I just always feel quite tense and stressed and miserable! Maybe I don't have to listen to the opinions of men who think I'm much, much stupider than them! Maybe that's quite an unhealthy thing to be exposed to!
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Now if I could just stop reading the comments on YouTube videos and newspaper articles from people who hate me. Baby steps.
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To be fair, if I didn't occasionally check my wider mentions, I wouldn't have seen that some man has sent me a link to the Wikipedia page for "neoliberalism". A lot of big words, though, and I'm worried my little lady brain might not cope.
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Is soft-blocking muting?
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No, if someone follows you and you block them then immediately unblock them, they can still read your tweets but they don't follow you any more.
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Muting and blocking are the only way to 'spend' your capital to show 'marketplace of ideas' types what you think of their ideas
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this is a very wise step. I did this months ago--and I'm a guy, with far fewer followers than you, so I get way less weirdly hostile Tweets--and it's made my Twitter usage much easier
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Yeah, somebody else I follow was complaining about their timeline yesterday and was amazed how much better it was when I explained switching to seeing tweets as they happen instead of the home view.
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If you change your location to the UAE or similar then all the trending slurry in the side is in Arabic.
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