Doxxing Internet babes: “She wanted it”

[gaspee]

Lots of good stuff in here, all fitting in the objectification discussion - including links to other interesting reads.

Doxxing is the Internet’s ultimate form of slut-shaming – and, as this latest case shows, it doesn’t just happen to women who have taken a naked photo of themselves. All it requires is being a woman on the Internet. Whether it’s the outing of an unwitting Olympic volunteer or the doxxing of a woman who dares to anonymously volunteer herself as masturbation material, there is a common theme here and it’s a sense of sexual entitlement. It’s the belief — conscious or not — that women’s bodies, their identities, do not belong to them. It’s the double-edged sword of sexual desirability: You become more of a woman — but less of a human.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/doxxing_internet_babes_she_wanted_it/

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. And people on here wonder why I am not more forthcoming with personal information

on DU3 ....

Are you kidding me?

This is The Internet.

[gaspee]

2. Yeah, I am the same

I've been around the block a few times and am not naive asa to what can happen with even a little bit of personal identifying info. It's pretty sad that women have to consider the implications of everything they post.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. well, men should too, really. stuff they post can be used against them and there are

female trolls.

[gaspee]

5. Yup

I was here in the days of Andy - probably on my old account that I lost the password for and could never get back on to that account because I changed email addresses. I remember what RW asswipes put him through when he was fighting cancer.

Men and women both should be careful on the internet, but most men don't get rape threats along with the death threats and the constant belittling attacks that are wholly gender based.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. true.

and I am going overboard because I want peace on The Gender Wars and I am tired of arguing in that context.

Peace.

Really, men do have problems. I wish TMG would work in the way it was originally intended.

Trolls have infected all of DU not, just some certain groups.

[ismnotwasm]

4. On my god

And wouldn't it be nice if we could say the offenders were all mouth preaching RWer's?

In going to check out this subredditt:

When a woman posted a before and after weight loss photo of herself in her underwear, a redditor posted a comment with her name and social media accounts and it was upvoted more than 500 times. The subreddit r/ShitRedditSays, which criticizes comments that are “bigoted, creepy, misogynistic, transphobic, racist, homophobic, or just reeking of unexamined, toxic privilege,” recently called out r/photoplunder, a subreddit devoted to discovering photos in women’s photobucket accounts that are meant to be private. The site comes with the tag line, “They should know better.” As ShitRedditSays points out, many posts link “back to the photobucket account it came from, names and even high schools and colleges, and some of it is searchable to more personal profile information than that. despite this, the mode refuse to check links that may have real names and content info in the titles.”

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. that was the very paragraph that prompted me to reply as I did. Fucking Scary Shit. n/t

[Dr. Strange]

8. And yet they (Reddit) will ban you if you expose pedophiles.

http://gawker.com/pedophiles-are-still-tearing-reddit-apart-1528622707

[ismnotwasm]

9. That so wrong and disgusting

I'm speechless.

[gaspee]

10. I never go to Reddit

So I had no idea - that is despicable.