Neil BrownFeb 23

> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

The examples included here are horrible. Not just the sex-shaming, but that too.

I'm far from convinced that a social media ban is the answer, but the comment is still well worth reading - especially by men.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

The Guardian
Show threadJima Feb 23

@neil Yeah, only adult women should be subjected to the vile misogyny. 🧐🥴

(It's a problem, no argument; I fail to see how isolating minors from communities they can find online is necessarily the answer, though.)

Show threadPjpBFeb 23
@jima @neil
Which communities? The "friends" are not friends most of the time, they are digital relations, they ignore you as soon as the conversation is finished.
If you want to be part of communitie, join a group in real life, with people taking care of each other, where real interaction with body language is much more rich than a digital one.
Show threadJima 

@PjpB @neil @rpbook As someone who first came online at 13, and made some lifelong friends (leading to family) early on, I take great exception to the characterization of online friends not being real friends.

Your experience of the Internet clearly does not align with mine (and others, hi Russell!), so please refrain from telling others how they should experience life — your way is not The Way.

Feb 23 at 9:45pmWeb
Show threadJima Feb 23
@PjpB @neil @rpbook That people you've come to know online didn't find you engaging might be more of a testimony as to how well you communicate in mostly-text, than an overarching condemnation of the medium as a whole as hollow or somehow less-than IRL.
Show threadJima Feb 23

And ha ha, sorry @neil if that felt like I was ignoring your functional +1; I felt like it went without saying when I wrote it but while I was already replying to your toot, I'd tagged @rpbook in on my reply because I wanted to include them in the continued discussion but didn't want to reply to their toot directly (as if I was calling them out), and then after the fact it felt rude to exclude you.

Because, you know, I consider you a friend. Weird, right? 😅