@inquiline Social media conversations should be no different to any other conversation, especially as no visual cues as to whether someone is upset or not by what is said. Politeness costs nothing.

@inquiline Too many people talk about their right to do something as if it's a justification.

@inquiline For real, that is garbage behavior. I do think it's important to note that the actual person who set off this discourse today did not double down or offer justifications, but instead posted a sincere apology. I think this is good and right.

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Yeah, the crowd of "you don't take effective technical measures to prevent it, so it's obviously and necessarily welcome" are one of the more tiresome parts of the Fedi.

to anyone who says that people who don't like being mansplained to, etc. "don't know how social media work", i invite you to read this essay on how public speech and comment "work" to silence women

"My aim here – and I acknowledge the irony of my being given the space to address the subject – is to take a long view, a very long view, on the culturally awkward relationship between the voice of women and the public sphere of speech-making, debate and comment"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n06/mary-beard/the-public-voice-of-women

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@inquiline You made me look. Wow, that was not his first offense of mansplaining 🙄