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posted by n1 on Wednesday August 20 2014, @06:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-time-to-grow-up dept.

Jessica Roy reports at NY Magazine that news aggregator Fark has became one of the first original link aggregators to ban misogyny from its community making moderators responsible for ensuring that misogyny doesn't make its way into headlines or comments. Banned headlines include rape jokes, calling women as a group "whores" or "sluts" or similar demeaning terminology, and jokes suggesting that a woman who suffered a crime was somehow asking for it.

There are lots of examples of highly misogynistic language in pop culture, and Fark has used those plenty over the years. From SNL's "Jane, you ignorant slut" to Blazing Saddles' multiple casual references to rape, there are a lot of instances where views are made extreme to parody them. On Fark, we have a tendency to use pop culture references as a type of referential shorthand with one another.

On SNL and in a comedy movie, though, the context is clear. On the Internet, it's impossible to know the difference between a person with hateful views and a person lampooning hateful views to make a point.

According to Roy, Fark's new guidelines are a "refreshing departure from the misguided free speech arguments that sites like Reddit that bend over backwards to defend the handful of misogynist communities that are among its ranks, not to mention the free-floating slut-shaming that snakes its way into regular comment threads."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday August 20 2014, @06:36AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday August 20 2014, @06:36AM (#83415) Journal

    I am just upset about anyone being offended by soy products, Soy sauce, Tofu, Natto, or Miso. Although, I never could actually stand Natto, nastly stuff, kind of like Vegemite.

    Of course, any one taking any kind of offensive action, verbal, pictoral, or textual, against any one because of their gender identification, that is just wrong. Now within my lifetime, some words were perfectly acceptable in polite company, but now they are not. Same with being a jerk as regards gender, no longer acceptable. You may think that I am a guy, given the masculine ending of my handle. What do you base that on? Do you not realize that the Isle of Samos is only (so to speak) a stone's throw from the Isle of Lesbos? Have you not read the poem of Sapphos? Wait, why am I asking. We will just have to sue you bastards.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 20 2014, @06:50AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 20 2014, @06:50AM (#83418) Journal

    nastly stuff, kind of like Vegemite.[...] We will just have to sue you bastards.

    Say what?
    Dam'd, just where the today people keep their gauntlets?

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