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user-inactivated  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet

    Feminine usernames incurred an average of 100 sexually explicit or threatening messages a day. Masculine names received 3.7.

Why? What is wrong with my gender?

Seriously, reading this article was difficult. Thank god for hubski.





user-inactivated  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What do you mean?

user-inactivated  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Should be fairly obvious*

*if you know that I'm male

user-inactivated  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean the "article was difficult, thanks for hubski". Thought maybe there was a feature I'm missing or something.

rene  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nope, he just means that hubski has a culture/community that doesn't have the problems outlined in the article, namely a bitterness/aggression towards women.

havires  ·  3814 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Like Reddit

user-inactivated  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·  

oh yeah, i noticed that, it's cool

havires  ·  3808 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought you were replying to me, and then I noticed that my comment was among the most recent... Anyway to expand on what seems like a crap answer. Say you're a female on Reddit (doesn't matter where) and see how quickly your inbox fills up. I did this once as an experiment, and gave it like 2 weeks before I shut down that account. Anyway what happened was that it was almost a non stop continious inflow of men sending cock selfies and (what I understood to be) sexually harrassing messages. Which shows I think, the aggression to women that Reddit has. (Among the messages that were received were a lot of hate mail... So there's that too.)