Rayden, what you're engaging in here is a the textbook definition of "false equivalence"rayden83 wrote: ↑October 3, 2019, 12:01 amPretty much. It’s not just women who are being abused, men are targets as well, but when it’s a bloke it doesn’t seem to attract as much media attention or confected sympathy from all the knights in shining armour. No one would accept an NRL player quitting football because of online abuse, they would be told the best strategy to deal with it is just to ignore it, rather than go the media and plead for all the mean people to stop being mean.PigRickman wrote: ↑October 2, 2019, 9:10 pm Right, well that's settled that matter
There is nothing to be done so women who are hounded day and night by **** trolls with misognyst, vulgar and sexist Bull will just have to cop it i guess, or just quit their jobs.
Good grief
The many orders of magnitude difference what women in the public sphere face on social media compared to men is irreconcilable in terms of a comparison.
And as for your second statement, it's quite simply not true, as evidenced by the year long battle Latrell Mitchell has had with online racist trolls. And the overwhelming majority of people are not telling him to ignore it, or stop talking about it publicly pleading for people to stop being *****. Most decent human beings are supporting Latrell in the very public way he's handled this and trying to effect some change
Erin Molan should not have to deal with this sort of Bull. It's not on her to be thicker skinned or to ignore it, or quit her job. It's for her to do her job and expect to do that without a bunch a ***** making wildly inappropriate, sexist, misogynistic comments about her. That's it, end of story. Anyone operating outside of that is where the problems lay, not with Erin Moylan.
And for those of us who are not absolute ****, its for us to stand up for her rights to be able to go about her life without having to deal with this scum, and not to excuse it, or ignore it, or put the onus on her to be above it. That's Bull, and it's an attitude that creates a culture in our society that allows it. If that's your position on it, you are part of the problem. It's a simple as that.