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Valenti unwittingly unleashed an insane, angry, nasty and stuck in the 1970s stylie (one would think) misogynistic-to-the-Nth-degree, social media shit storm over the weekend after sending what the vast majority of the sane world would view asa totally innocuous tweet about feminine hygiene products.
Yeah, really.
Twitter friends: Anyone know a country where tampons are free or somehow subsidized? the Guardian columnist pondered Friday via her (PERSONAL) Twitter account.
How very dare she!!!!
Seriously how VERY DARE she?!!!!
Who does this woman think she is?!!! To post such a vile missive on her personal twitter feed! Outrageous disgusting unforgivable . Whore. Bitch. Cunt!!!
I mean, lets face itthis radical feminist is literally RAMMING her crazed, insane agenda down our throats, isnt she?
I mean, lets face it, she tweeted this poison this unspeakable poison from her own personal twitter account!!!
Thankfully, there were trolls aplenty out there in good old Twitter-verse to back up this obviously TOTALLY SANE AND JUSTIFIABLE sense of outrage we are all feeling right now over Valentis unspeakable actionsand to quickly put this (and I quote from a selection of responses) gaping vagina, whore, loud mouth feminist, FIRMLY in her place.convictions that we in the Western world live in a gender equal societyshould take a minute to check out the unbelievably vile, shocking and disgusting comments on New York-based journalist Jessica Valentis Twitter feed.
http://popdust.com/2014/08/12/free-tampons-tweet-fight-misogyny-jessica-valenti-gender-inequality/
Squinch
(53,686 posts)seaglass
(8,181 posts)Ugh.
Thanks ism for posting this. A number of people I follow already follow her, she just gained a new follower.
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whathehell
(29,980 posts)As a woman, this is the kind of thing not only hurts and disgusts me -- along with
women and girls the world over -- it makes me throw up my hands in disbelief and despair.
As a woman who was exposed to some particularly execrable pornography once said:
"This really hurts -- to see how little we're thought of ".
I can't imagine where this ugly, deep seated fear and hate come from.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)which as every boy knows is the worstest thing ever and girls is icky!
justhanginon
(3,338 posts)old white guy and I had never really given much thought to this but it seems like a problem for women that could somehow be intelligently addressed without all the stupid furor.
I do not know what the hell is the matter with people these days. How sad that you cannot even have a discussion of a problem that affects millions of women, not just in this country but worldwide, without bringing out all the misogynist trolls to try and shut it down. It doesn't seem to be limited to just this particular instance but almost an ongoing vendetta against anything benefiting women and especially poor women. How sad!