# I pit misogyny/sexism on Twitter **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 22, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978 "2014-05-22T01:35:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OurLordPeace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e8c25b/32.png) [@OurLordPeace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OurLordPeace)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/1 "2014-05-22T01:35:12Z")
It’s not that people are insulting me. So what? No, what bothers me is that they think “male vagina” is an insult, as well as calling me a pussy, questioning if I am male, telling me to go put on a strap on and fuck whatever I fuck, telling me I have no self-respect because I’m a male feminist, and then liking and retweeting those tweets over and over and over again. In other words, attacking me is not really the issue (though going straight to ad hominems should be disgraceful, no?), it’s the depths of misogyny and sexism made evident by their actions. I asked one (evidently) woman calling herself an anti-feminist in her username to consider the way women are treated, and she responds with “I am treated like a fucking princess because I don’t date democrats.” So we can add selfishness, along with a revealing reverence for monarchy (American conservatives, monarchists?!? No!) and strange political confusion, inasmuch as I’m not a Democrat/democrat. My heroes have always shot at monarchists! Yeah, I pit the backwards troglodytes on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/2 "2014-05-22T03:07:26Z")
Anyone have that talk with you yet about the internet yet ? /r ---
**Author:** ![OurLordPeace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e8c25b/32.png) [@OurLordPeace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OurLordPeace)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/3 "2014-05-22T03:20:28Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > Anyone have that talk with you yet about the internet yet ? /r Sure, I understand what you mean, but it’s much worse there than I had seen anywhere else in quite a while. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/4 "2014-05-22T03:44:21Z")
This is why I don’t participate in social media, at least under my real name. I don’t want my opinions, etc., to spread beyond my immediate circle. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/5 "2014-05-22T03:49:52Z")
The idiots and losers on the internet have more time than you. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/6 "2014-05-22T04:52:15Z")
> [@OurLordPeace](#): > > It’s not that people are insulting me. So what? No, what bothers me is that they think “male vagina” is an insult, as well as calling me a pussy, questioning if I am male, telling me to go put on a strap on and fuck whatever I fuck, telling me I have no self-respect because I’m a male feminist, and then liking and retweeting those tweets over and over and over again. > > In other words, attacking me is not really the issue (though going straight to ad hominems should be disgraceful, no?), it’s the depths of misogyny and sexism made evident by their actions. I asked one (evidently) woman calling herself an anti-feminist in her username to consider the way women are treated, and she responds with “I am treated like a fucking princess because I don’t date democrats.” So we can add selfishness, along with a revealing reverence for monarchy (American conservatives, monarchists?!? No!) and strange political confusion, inasmuch as I’m not a Democrat/democrat. My heroes have always shot at monarchists! Keep fighting the good fight, friend. Someday the world’s women will know what you’ve done for them with your brave Twitter posting. I know you’re not doing it for the fame, but they’ll probably erect a statue in your honor. “He was not a pussy,” it will read. “However, we liked him more as a friend.” ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/7 "2014-05-22T05:26:26Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > “He was not a pussy,” it will read. “However, we liked him more as a friend.” You beautiful, magnificent bastard. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/8 "2014-05-22T08:44:40Z")
Gosh, it took until post #6 for the White Knighting calls to start. The Giraffe herd is tardy, today… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/9 "2014-05-22T10:17:27Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Someday the world’s women will know what you’ve done for them with your brave Twitter posting. That’s womyn. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/10 "2014-05-22T10:23:25Z")
> [@OurLordPeace](#): > > It’s not that people are insulting me. So what? No, what bothers me is that they think “male vagina” is an insult, as well as calling me a pussy, questioning if I am male, telling me to go put on a strap on and fuck whatever I fuck, telling me I have no self-respect because I’m a male feminist, and then liking and retweeting those tweets over and over and over again. > > In other words, attacking me is not really the issue (though going straight to ad hominems should be disgraceful, no?), it’s the depths of misogyny and sexism made evident by their actions. I asked one (evidently) woman calling herself an anti-feminist in her username to consider the way women are treated, and she responds with “I am treated like a fucking princess because I don’t date democrats.” So we can add selfishness, along with a revealing reverence for monarchy (American conservatives, monarchists?!? No!) and strange political confusion, inasmuch as I’m not a Democrat/democrat. My heroes have always shot at monarchists! > > Yeah, I pit the backwards troglodytes on Twitter. Curious. What do you say that upsets them so much? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/11 "2014-05-22T10:53:20Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Gosh, it took until post #6 for the White Knighting calls to start. [Huh?](http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/452/279/b4f.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/12 "2014-05-22T11:44:09Z")
> [@OurLordPeace](#): > > Sure, I understand what you mean, but it’s much worse there than I had seen anywhere else in quite a while. It’s Twitter, man. It attracts twits. And you can’t do a good nuanced discourse in 140-character bursts. But you do realize you’ll get it from both sides – there are those who in all sincerity will question if a male can ever be a true feminist or if he just is positioning himself to be on women’s good side. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/13 "2014-05-22T11:46:46Z")
How about you quit being such a skirt? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/14 "2014-05-22T12:08:50Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > And you can’t do a good nuanced discourse in 140-character bursts. Yes, the format makes it much easier to insult than to lecture, which puts the OP at a disadvantage. One has to be pithy while guiding the blind masses toward the light of understanding. Or just make a shitload of tweets until they finally get it. I do admire your conviction, **OurLordPeace**. I myself am discouraged, from time to time, at the tepid response to my own Facebook status teachings, and even the wisdom I impart to this board through my many carefully researched and informative posts. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/15 "2014-05-22T13:03:50Z")
Sheesh. There’s enough vaginas in this thread to … to … to… AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!! :whoop whoop: JOKE OVERLOAD!!! JOKE OVERLOAD!!! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/16 "2014-05-22T13:11:28Z")
Like all social networks, the experience is defined by who you associate with on them. Blaming Twitter for the people you follow being douches is like blaming the phone after you call an asshole friend. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/17 "2014-05-22T13:17:08Z")
> [@OurLordPeace](#): > > … My heroes have always shot at monarchists! And were any of those monarchists women? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/18 "2014-05-22T13:22:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > That’s womyn. > [@kayaker](#): > > [Huh?](http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/452/279/b4f.jpg) …and the herd keeps growing.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/19 "2014-05-22T13:34:01Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > One has to be pithy while guiding the blind masses toward the light of understanding. Or just make a shitload of tweets until they finally get it. > > I do admire your conviction, **OurLordPeace**. I myself am discouraged, from time to time, at the tepid response to my own Facebook status teachings, and even the wisdom I impart to this board through my many carefully researched and informative posts. Surely, no! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/20 "2014-05-22T13:54:26Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > …and the herd keeps growing.:rolleyes: At your Round Table, who takes the place of honor by the inverted cross? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978.md?page=2)