# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/41 "2014-05-22T16:19:03Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Are you a male? And do you have a “male vagina”?\* > \*And what is a “male vagina”? It’s like a Whale Vagina but upside down. ---
**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, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/42 "2014-05-22T16:19:34Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Are you a male? And do you have a “male vagina”?\* > \*And what is a “male vagina”? Apparently, it’s an intended-as-derogatory term to refer to males who oppose patriarchy/misogyny/sexism and all that bad stuff. People like me. ---
**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, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/43 "2014-05-22T16:26:14Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Actually, I first saw this thread through an even more nefarious method. 'course you did. > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > If you’d stop bringing it up people might actually start to forget about it. Sure “they” would. “They” are so totally non-stalkerish in “their” posting habits. > [@](#): > > Also you spelled “Of course” wrong, twice 'course I did. ---
**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, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/44 "2014-05-22T16:28:32Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > 'Course you had, **kayaker** , _'course_ you had. All kidding aside, yes I had. My memory sucks (especially short term, imagine that). Looking back, the recent mentions of the whole situation have all been made by you. As **Drunky** so wisely opined: [QUOTE=Drunky Smurf] If you’d stop bringing it up people might actually start to forget about it. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/45 "2014-05-22T16:37:48Z")
Anyone else feel like they accidentally stumbled into a room at a party where a massive passive-agressive fight is going on between people they don’t really know all that well? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/46 "2014-05-22T16:38:45Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Couldn’t possibly comment on stuff that happens on another board. Certainly I have no knowledge of people gathering together on other boards to egg one another on to post trolling things here. That would be some sort of, I don’t know, “board war”, and _we_ good Dopers would _never_ have any truck with that. > > So of course no-one else would do that to us, either. And if they did, we couldn’t mention it here. Because _we’d_ be instigating just for mentioning it, right? [Moderating] Amazingly prescient! And yet, here you are doing it nonetheless. Knock it off. That goes for everyone else, too. No warnings issued. [/Moderating] ---
**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, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/47 "2014-05-22T16:40:25Z")
As you say… ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/48 "2014-05-22T16:59:38Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Anyone else feel like they accidentally stumbled into a room at a party where a massive passive-agressive fight is going on between people they don’t really know all that well? That’s as good a theory as any. I came to read about misogyny/sexism on Twitter but I have no idea WTF is going on. ---
**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, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/49 "2014-05-22T17:01:16Z")
> [@OurLordPeace](#): > > Apparently, it’s an intended-as-derogatory term to refer to males who oppose patriarchy/misogyny/sexism and all that bad stuff. People like me. Douchebags? Seriously, I know you’re shrouded in your cloud of righteousness so you probably won’t be able to hear this, but the persona you project through your writing is absolutely insufferable. Not because of your beliefs, but because you are incredibly annoying. No one likes a sanctimonious martyr. Even the most hardcore feminists would find you unbearable after about fifteen minutes. If you ever want to be less annoying, start with these helpful tips: 1. Don’t lecture women on where they’d be without feminism. 2. When someone calls you a pussy, don’t use it as an opportunity to wring your hands over the sexism of gender-specific insults. 3. Don’t use the word patriarchy. Just don’t. You should probably also just stay off of Twitter. You seem bad at it. #hardtruths ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/50 "2014-05-22T17:09:38Z")
> [@OurLordPeace](#): > > First I defended science against climate denial, but then I noticed somebody’s handle, and I pointed out that without feminism, she’d be some man’s property. So, hmm. When somebody on twitter disagreed with your political views, the first thing you did is make their gender an issue. “Without men like me, your kind would be property” isn’t the type of thing that’s going to go over too well. ---
**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, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/51 "2014-05-22T17:38:15Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > So, hmm. When somebody on twitter disagreed with your political views, the first thing you did is make their gender an issue. “Without men like me, your kind would be property” isn’t the type of thing that’s going to go over too well. No, first of all, scientific consensus is not a political viewpoint, but more importantly, I then noticed that she was explicitly referring to herself in that misogynistic way. That’s the only reason I brought it up. ---
**Author:** ![retsin2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@retsin2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/retsin2000)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/52 "2014-05-22T17:50:07Z")
Mr. Dribble, Would you mind providing a link to the thread you keep bringing up that you wish people would stop bringing up? I’d like to read it for myself. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/53 "2014-05-22T18:11:55Z")
> [@retsin2000](#): > > Mr. Dribble, > > Would you mind providing a link to the thread you keep bringing up that you wish people would stop bringing up? I’d like to read it for myself. > > Thanks That’s not “Dribble”, that’s “Dibble”, as in, either a pointy thing for planting potatoes or a cop who regularly gets outsmarted by an alley cat that wears a vest and a hat, take your pick. ---
**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, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/54 "2014-05-22T18:20:53Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > That’s not “Dribble”, that’s “Dibble”, as in, either a pointy thing for planting potatoes or a cop who regularly gets outsmarted by an alley cat that wears a vest and a hat, take your pick. Neither, actually - **Dibbler** was already taken. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/55 "2014-05-22T18:21:10Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > Anyone have that talk with you yet about the internet yet ? /r > [@Smeghead](#): > > People on the internet fail to represent the best of humanity. > > Film at 11. Regardless of whether the OP is self righteous or not (telling a woman where she’d be without feminism during a discussion on global warming is pretty bad), this sort of thinking really needs to stop. > **[Curbing Online Abuse Isn't Impossible. Here's Where We Start](https://www.wired.com/2014/05/fighting-online-harassment/)** > > Riot Games, makers of League of Legends, tried to combat harassment by analyzing behavioral profiles for tens of millions of users. > [@](#): > > Too often, though, we talk about online abuse like we talk about bad weather: We shake our heads, shrug, and assume there’s nothing we can do. The behavior is so prevalent that it’s seen as an inextricable part of online culture. As a widely read article in January’s Pacific Standard noted, “Internet harassment is routinely dismissed as ‘harmless locker-room talk,’ perpetrators as ‘juvenile pranksters,’ and victims as ‘overly sensitive complainers.’” What else, in other words, would you expect from the Internet? But the Internet is now where we socialize, where we work. It’s where we meet our spouses, where we build our reputations. Online harassment isn’t just inconvenient, nor is it something we can walk away from with ease. It’s abhorrent behavior that has real social, professional, and economic costs. > > […] > > When people speak up about online harassment, one of the most common responses is “Well, what did you expect from the Internet?” If we truly want to change our online spaces, the answer from all of us has got to be: _more_. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/56 "2014-05-22T18:40:33Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Regardless of whether the OP is self righteous or not (telling a woman where she’d be without feminism during a discussion on global warming is pretty bad), this sort of thinking really needs to stop. Yes, SIR! Stopping that sort of thinking now SIR! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/57 "2014-05-22T19:02:25Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Neither, actually - **Dibbler** was already taken. The Dibbler; [http://www.australianfauna.com/dibbler.php](http://www.australianfauna.com/dibbler.php) how cute. ---
**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, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/58 "2014-05-22T19:29:37Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > No one likes a sanctimonious martyr. Even the most hardcore feminists would find you unbearable after about fifteen minutes. It’s not about me. I think I’ve been around the most hardcore feminists, and that’s not what happened. > [@](#): > > If you ever want to be less annoying, start with these helpful tips: > > 1. Don’t lecture women on where they’d be without feminism. > 2. When someone calls you a pussy, don’t use it as an opportunity to wring your hands over the sexism of gender-specific insults. > 3. Don’t use the word patriarchy. Just don’t. > > You should probably also just stay off of Twitter. You seem bad at it. #hardtruths > [@Jragon](#): > > Regardless of whether the OP is self righteous or not (telling a woman where she’d be without feminism during a discussion on global warming is pretty bad), this sort of thinking really needs to stop. I didn’t want to do it, and it was never the plan in any case, but silence betokens consent. Also, I’m not asking this to argue, as I am curious: why not use the word “patriarchy”? ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/59 "2014-05-22T19:49:07Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > And were any of those monarchists women? :dubious: We call them menarchists. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978/60 "2014-05-22T19:52:17Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > The Dibbler; > > [http://www.australianfauna.com/dibbler.php](http://www.australianfauna.com/dibbler.php) > > how cute. You should see its Dibbler Vagina. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-misogyny-sexism-on-twitter/688978.md?page=4)