"Our disquiet with a situation, with our interactions are dismissed as drama. Our lack of safety is ignored. So of course it isn't worth it.

So we carefully work in the shadows. Giving support to each other and counteract the gas lighting in our communities.

It's not drama. No you aren't imagining this.

Are you safe?"

Enforcement of Freedom of Association doesn't curtail free speech, but Free Speech can not happen meaningfully without it.

#sexism

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silence

"Our disquiet with a situation, with our interactions are dismissed as drama. Our lack of safety is ignored. So of course it isn't worth it.

So we carefully work in the shadows. Giving support to each other and counteract the gas lighting in our communities.

It's not drama. No you aren't imagining this.

Are you safe?"

Enforcement of Freedom of Association doesn't curtail free speech, but Free Speech can not happen meaningfully without it.

#sexism

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silence

Teach a man to fish and he'll stop you to explain how you're doing it wrong.

#ReplyGuys #Men #Sexism #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #misogyny #patriarchy

BIPOC have said it over & over (before most of 'em left for Blue Sky), but if a white woman with lots of followers here here has just been driven into "taking a long break" because of the toxicity of the reply guys here, perhaps some of the white folks here might now be ready to realize that aspects of culture here on Mastodon can be really toxic and the tools for dealing with it are less robust here than what is reportedly available elsewhere. #Sexism #Racism #JustDebateMeBros

BIPOC have said it over & over (before most of 'em left for Blue Sky), but if a white woman with lots of followers here here has just been driven into "taking a long break" because of the toxicity of the reply guys here, perhaps some of the white folks here might now be ready to realize that aspects of culture here on Mastodon can be really toxic and the tools for dealing with it are less robust here than what is reportedly available elsewhere. #Sexism #Racism #JustDebateMeBros

"Former Stanford professor Nathan Wolfe ’92 planned sexual behavior research, described interns with Epstein"

"Wolfe made his plans for a research study explicit in May 2013, writing to Epstein about testing “[their] horny virus hypothesis” with an experiment he believed would interest Epstein. A “real-time study in undergrads,” which he devised..."

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/02/03/former-stanford-professor-nathan-wolfe-92-planned-sexual-behavior-research-described-interns-with-epstein/ #RapeCulture #Sexism #Eugenics #AcademicChatter

"Former Stanford professor Nathan Wolfe ’92 planned sexual behavior research, described interns with Epstein"

"Wolfe made his plans for a research study explicit in May 2013, writing to Epstein about testing “[their] horny virus hypothesis” with an experiment he believed would interest Epstein. A “real-time study in undergrads,” which he devised..."

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/02/03/former-stanford-professor-nathan-wolfe-92-planned-sexual-behavior-research-described-interns-with-epstein/ #RapeCulture #Sexism #Eugenics #AcademicChatter

Teach a man to fish and he'll stop you to explain how you're doing it wrong.

#ReplyGuys #Men #Sexism #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #misogyny #patriarchy

#LLM proponents are disproportionately male, while critics or people who take a more sceptical stance do tend to be, in aggregate, more female and less binary in #gender on the whole. Sometimes this is innocuous, but other times it leads to things like Kat Marchin being driven off the internet thanks to relentless death threats over the Openslopware project. The point is that there's a noticeable asymmetry in the people who are for the use of coding agents as opposed to those who have a warier attitude to the tech, and that this asymmetry isn't exactly innocuous.

- Iris Meredith, The problem is culture https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_problem_is_culture

#AI #sexism

#LLM proponents are disproportionately male, while critics or people who take a more sceptical stance do tend to be, in aggregate, more female and less binary in #gender on the whole. Sometimes this is innocuous, but other times it leads to things like Kat Marchin being driven off the internet thanks to relentless death threats over the Openslopware project. The point is that there's a noticeable asymmetry in the people who are for the use of coding agents as opposed to those who have a warier attitude to the tech, and that this asymmetry isn't exactly innocuous.

- Iris Meredith, The problem is culture https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_problem_is_culture

#AI #sexism

Wow, I just got hate-speeched (I think) in public for the first time in a long time 😮 (so #CW)

Earlier today I was over in Mercer Island for lunch with my mom. On the walk from the car to the restaurant, after some guy was leering at me as we crossed he street, I mentioned that I'm used to getting disapproving looks from the church crowd, or guys checking me out creepily, but no one around Seattle actually *says* anything gross to my face.

Well, prove me wrong! A little later, as we were walking back from lunch to the car, a big black truck rolled by with its tinted windows down, and two 20s-ish guys in it. They were yelling stuff out the window at me (which I assume was queerphobic or sexist—based on their demeanor, but asshats rarely understand how sound compression works, so they're almost always unintelligible as they drive by).

That event led to us having an actual, open conversation about some things that we've never talked about before. Which is how my mom and I both found out the other had been sexually assaulted, twice. Her when she was 18, and again in her 20s, and me when I was 13, then again just a couple years ago.

I think that's the most real conversation we've ever had (and a sad thing to bond with your mom over).

#SA #Sexuality #Sexism

Wow, I just got hate-speeched (I think) in public for the first time in a long time 😮 (so #CW)

Earlier today I was over in Mercer Island for lunch with my mom. On the walk from the car to the restaurant, after some guy was leering at me as we crossed he street, I mentioned that I'm used to getting disapproving looks from the church crowd, or guys checking me out creepily, but no one around Seattle actually *says* anything gross to my face.

Well, prove me wrong! A little later, as we were walking back from lunch to the car, a big black truck rolled by with its tinted windows down, and two 20s-ish guys in it. They were yelling stuff out the window at me (which I assume was queerphobic or sexist—based on their demeanor, but asshats rarely understand how sound compression works, so they're almost always unintelligible as they drive by).

That event led to us having an actual, open conversation about some things that we've never talked about before. Which is how my mom and I both found out the other had been sexually assaulted, twice. Her when she was 18, and again in her 20s, and me when I was 13, then again just a couple years ago.

I think that's the most real conversation we've ever had (and a sad thing to bond with your mom over).

#SA #Sexuality #Sexism

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn’t take you seriously until you’d actually killed them, by which time it didn’t really matter anyway.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 2, The Light Fantastic (1986)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8163…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #bias #chauvinism #feminism #fighter #hero #heroine #prejudice #sexism #takeseriously #sexdiscrimination #battleofthesexes

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn’t take you seriously until you’d actually killed them, by which time it didn’t really matter anyway.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 2, The Light Fantastic (1986)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8163…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #bias #chauvinism #feminism #fighter #hero #heroine #prejudice #sexism #takeseriously #sexdiscrimination #battleofthesexes

@onepict
I wonder if Fediverse design makes it difficult to be aware such things are happening until it's basically too late.

e.g., I get trolled by sexist men who are angry at me that I called out Stallman's #sexism. I quickly block all their hosts, so I don't even see them.

I wonder if the sexist behavior / sexual harassment here come from the same types of hosts?

FWIW, I give blanket permission to be @`mentioned anywhere some dude is harassing someone.

Cc: @RadicalSocialWorker

@onepict
I wonder if Fediverse design makes it difficult to be aware such things are happening until it's basically too late.

e.g., I get trolled by sexist men who are angry at me that I called out Stallman's #sexism. I quickly block all their hosts, so I don't even see them.

I wonder if the sexist behavior / sexual harassment here come from the same types of hosts?

FWIW, I give blanket permission to be @`mentioned anywhere some dude is harassing someone.

Cc: @RadicalSocialWorker

A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.

Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren't welcome.

Otherwise you're making it clear we aren't welcome.

It shouldn't just be us doing the work

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silence

#sexism