When comic Marcia Belsky sarcastically replied “men are scum” to a friend’s Facebook post back in October, she never anticipated being banned from the platform for 30 days.
That was exactly what happened.
Belsky was shocked at the severity of the punishment considering her relatively innocuous comment, and immediately spoke to her fellow female friends about the ordeal. They could relate.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, countless women have taken to Facebook to express their frustration and disappointment with men and have been promptly shut down or silenced, banned from the platform for periods ranging from one to seven days.
Women have posted things as bland as “men ain’t shit,” “all men are ugly,” and even “all men are allegedly ugly” and had their posts removed. They’ve been locked out of their accounts for suggesting that, since “all men are ugly,” country music star Blake Shelton “winning the sexiest man isn’t a triumph.”
“I personally posted men are scum in November and I received a seven day ban. It’s still ongoing. Two days and 23 hours left,” said comedian Alison Klemp.
What the fuck Facebook?
Please do not try to protect men.
"Men are shit, all men are ugly?" These are what they consider examples of criticism that men cannot handle?
We say nastier shit than that just to wind each other up all of the time.
Trust me men need to be criticized. And if they can't take it they need to stop calling themselves men.
No Gryph, this is great news. FB is a main reason people hate each other, families aren't speaking, and fake news is passed off as truth. Shut it down!! And if they shut it down themselves by pissing people off, all the better!
ReplyDeleteSo basically is Facebook telling:
ReplyDeleteSARAH PALIN
FACEBOOK SARAH
LOU SARAH
LONELY SARAH
TRYING TO STAY RELEVANT SARAH
DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME SARAH
MAN HATIN' SARAH
NEXT YEAR I'M RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT SARAH
TO KEEP HER ASS OFF OF FACEBOOK
The Palin Obsessed Brigade is up early this morning. You freaks must never sleep.
Delete5:19AM, you're up and scolding pretty early...
Deletethe way to get rid of the bird brain from Alaska is to ignore her. do not respond to her at all. to her thinking bad is better than nothing.
Deletemissed DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I M sara
DeleteI can't help wondering, do men get banned if they insult or criticize women, say, call them "all hoes" or some such common male statement?
ReplyDeleteGood question.
DeleteNo. I can tell you for a fact. They can even take your profile picture, deface it and repost and no one will hold them responsible
Delete@6:51 In the beginning>
DeleteGo to 8:09am Below.
Zuck's wet dream.
In order to achieve a good outcome from the me too discussion the words matter. Most men do not deserve to be criticized. But there are those that do. And must be exposed for what they are. LIARS. Most abusers are LIARS.
ReplyDeletewomen lie, too. it's all about being human. i am a me,too. i've dealt with it-many years of therapy. some women can.t find ways of dealing with it and nasty complaints help vent. Facebook needs to deal with that. i mean, lets have the russians own it but women....
Deleteit is time to close facebook.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3/they-made-a-mistake-haha-they-asked-me-to-make-it-for-them-2#we-can-talk-about-that-after-i-get-all-the-basic-functionality-up-tomorrow-night-1
DeleteSeriously? Racism, misogyny, and Russian trolls are OK but “men are scum” is over the line? WTF???
ReplyDeleteFacebook is run by men. the women are fighting back-some men can't deal with that.
DeleteDissing anyone with nasty vicious language REGARDLESS OF GENDER should be called out.
ReplyDeleteWomen are not saints and women are not above being sexist, misandrist bigots, just as some men are misogynists
What does EQUALITY mean if not to be treating people equally???
Women should band together and start deleting their accounts when this happens and publicize what theyre doing. Facebook would take notice of that. Zuckerberg is a piece of shit.
ReplyDeleteHe was from the start!
DeleteRemember even before FB 'went public' if you did not 'JOIN UP' you were thought to be>
Delete'hiding something'.
It was all about Locker fRAT boy CONquER >girltalk.
College bOYzZ
Zuck
"launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004."A week after he launched the site in 2004, Mark was accused by three Harvard seniors of having stolen the idea from them."
"Dorm room chit-chat does not make a contract."
" The site was to be called HarvardConnections.com.
"Mark was known at Harvard as the sophomore who had built Facemash, a "Hot Or Not"{VOTE}clone for Harvard. Facemash had already made Mark a bit of a celebrity on campus, for two reasons.
The first is that Mark GOT in trouble for creating it. The way the site worked was that it pulled photos of Harvard students off of Harvard's Web sites. It rearranged these photos so that when people visited Facemash.com they would see pictures of two Harvard students and be asked to vote on which was more attractive. The site also maintained a list of Harvard students, ranked by attractiveness. he was charged with breaching security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy."
" Happily for Mark, the article reports that he wasn't expelled." {READ THE WHOLE STORY}
But the real "first investor" claim to fame should actually belong to a Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg's named Eduardo Saverin.
To picture Eduardo, what you need to know is that he was the kid at Harvard who would wear a suit to class. He liked to give people the impression that he was rich -- and maybe somehow connected to the Brazilian mafia. At one point, in an IM exchange, Mark told a friend that Eduardo -- "head of the investment society" -- was rich because "apparently INSIDER TRADING isn't illegal in Brazil."
NOW>"the facebook thing." zZuck: I also hate the fact that I'm doing it for other people haha. Like I hate working under other people. I feel like the right thing to do is finish the facebook and wait until the last day before I'm supposed to have their thing ready and then be like
"look yours isn't as good as this so if you want to join mine you can…otherwise I can help you with yours later." Or do you think that's too DICK?" "I'm going to FUCK them." He had already told Adam that "the right thing to do" was to not complete Harvard Connection and build TheFacebook.com instead. HE had registered the domain name." Judge>"any agreement the parties may have had--as well as most of the purported IMs and emails we have reviewed from the period--appear to have been at the level of, as Judge Ware described them, "dorm-room chit-chat."
"in the course of our investigation, we also uncovered two additional anecdotes about Mark's behavior in Facebook's early days that are more troubling. These episodes -- an apparent hacking into the email accounts of Harvard Crimson editors using data obtained from Facebook logins, as well as a later hacking into ConnectU " FUCKUMALL
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3/they-made-a-mistake-haha-they-asked-me-to-make-it-for-them-2#we-can-talk-about-that-after-i-get-all-the-basic-functionality-up-tomorrow-night-1
headline page is just the beginning. READ ALL 5.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/computer-scientist-author-jaron-lanier-part-2/
NOW THIS^^RESIST! GAMERGATEers!
I think it’s the adjectives used more than it is men. Pretty soon we’re all going to be talking like robots lest we offend anyone. We’re well on our way!
ReplyDeleteEverything in 4 letter words clear or code.
DeleteWho gives a flyin’ Fuck what Facebook does? Why do people feel the need to even waste time on it? It’s full of nonsense. Families and friends have quit speaking to each over stupid things people feel it’s fine to post but wouldn’t have the balls to say out loud, and Russian propaganda seems to have run rampant.
ReplyDeleteIMO this is beyond ridiculous. I will admit I bristle at the posts I see lately that are blanket statements about men but come on, we're supposedly all adults, can't we just scroll by and ignore what we don't want to read? (obviously within relative reason)
ReplyDeleteThen again, I just heard this morning that FB is going to launch a KIDS' version! NO NO NO that's not a good idea at ALL!!!!
I have three teens and I am thankful they have had no interest in using FB -OK other than my 17yo daughter with Down Syndrome who set up an account that we can NOT SHUT DOWN because she claims she can't remember her password hahaha and FB has no avenue for us to close her page so for now we just laugh and hope and pray she doesn't say anything that could bring trouble! I can't even fathom allowing a child to use FB. SOOOO many potential disasters there. Shame on them!
Well just post something on it (as above, farily innocuous) that will get it shut down.
DeleteI can't tell you how many times I have reported personal insults of a foul nature to FB & gotten no help or response. I guess that "cuck, library, les, etc" are ok to use so limb as my name is female.
ReplyDeleteRussian crap-OK! women venting sexual abuse? bad.
ReplyDeleteI was banned from facebook for posting the meme calling for halting gun sales to white men until we figure out what the fuck is going on. (This was after the Vegas shooting.)
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