@girlonthenet@mastodon.social
Occasionally men ask me if they are 'reply guys' or how they can avoid being a 'reply guy' in a woman's mentions. My answer is always to consider these two things:
1. does the thing you're saying really need to be said, or are you simply trying to find an excuse to talk to the nice internet lady?
2. would the world be a better place if you just shared her post instead?
To the men responding to this by pointing out that it’s a ‘social’ network so I’m not allowed to have any boundaries about how people choose to socialise with me: would you say this to a woman at a party? Does her presence at a party mean she must submit to any and all contact random dudes want to have with her? I reckon ‘no’.
@Asbestos @phaedral @girlonthenet
"The young white male founders of the giant tech platforms that dominate our lives today are not the primary targets (online or offline) of harassment, abuse, racism, sexual assault, violence, rape, revenge porn. So they didn’t, and they don’t, proactively design for the prevention of any of those things."
"Those of us who are at risk every single day—women, Black people, people of color, LGBTQ, the disabled—design safe spaces, and safe experiences."
