| >It was my understanding that most harassment and abuse is about dominance of the mind rather than physical. It's not about exercising entitlement, it's about establishing ownership. Subtle, but different. Well, yes, abuse is about power and control, certainly. But an abuser exerts power and control in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons. The root cause of street harassment is certainly for men to exercise power and control over not just a specific woman, but over the class of women as a whole; however, a factor that enables this is the narrative that men are entitled to women and women's bodies. This is why there are "nice guys" -- because men are taught that women are vending machines, fed tokens of chivalry and dispensing sex as a result. I wouldn't call the abusive pattern of "nice guys" about specifically women's minds vs. bodies, but rather that "nice guys" seek to exert dominance, power, and control over women by punishing women that do not behave according to the rules of the game that they set. So, subtle, different, but not wholly distinct either. In a phrase, why do men feel entitled to own women's bodies? >Killing 4chan would be like dropping a brick on a piece of shit - you don't have any less shit, just scattered. But there's a lot of value in scattering the shit: * You immediately damage the command-and-control system, fragmenting it into many subforums that are less individually efficacious for at least a period of time before a spiritual successor emerges * You send a message to everyone involved that what they are doing is not, in fact, okay. This is very important. Most 4channers/GamerGaters/men feel that it is normal to want the things they want and to do the things they do. Feminism is a dirty word and feminists are an aberration. Everyone imagines themselves the hero of their own story, but it's hard to maintain that image if the world denounces you. Heroes are not often denounced by the world. (Further, I personally care nothing for the implications to the platform. If you allow this filth on your platform you deserve what happens to you. You can't hide behind the actions of users when this is what you're actively profiting from -- the vast majority of 4chan ads are violently misogynist Japanese sex toys.) |