Tuesday, May 27, 2014

#YesAllWomen

The #YesAllWomen Twitter conversation is amazing reading.

Vox explains, Why #yesallwomen is the most important thing you'll read today. Sarah Kliff adds, Eight facts about violence against women everyone should know.

Bad Astronomy has a good post on the conversation, Not all men: How discussing women’s issues gets derailed.

Wired recently had an article Curbing Online Abuse Isn’t Impossible. Here’s Where We Start. "The good news, though, is that Internet harassment can be combatted and reduced. While the problem is far from solved, a few online communities—especially in the world of multiplayer gaming, which has long struggled with issues of incivility and abuse—have come up with some innovative techniques to deter harassers and sometimes even reform them. If Facebook and the other social networks were to take a page from these approaches, they could make huge strides in turning the Internet into a less toxic place for everyone. But embracing their lessons would also require a whole new way of thinking about online behavior."

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