Online Harassment Affects Men Too

Horizal · 2014-11-05T20:42:40+00:00

While it's refreshing to see men mentioned in this kind of thing - I am against this whole Victimhood / Oppression culture to begin with. Since when did people become such wet blankets?

"Oh no someone called me a bad name on the internet, better write about it on my tumblr and take up self harm. Poor me."

It's just pathetic, there's not a social media platform out there that wont allow you to block. Failing that you can... y'know... Turn your computer off and go outside for a bit.

People seem so eager these days to be seen to be oppressed and victimised. I say if someone is giving you shit on-line, give them as much back and be done with it. Male or female, child or adult etc etc. Just grow a spine and deal with it. A generation of CODDLED, USELESS adults are raising a generation of EVEN MORE CODDLED, USELESS children and it's because our society WORSHIPS victimhood.

Long before the internet was hugely popular (so back when CS1.6 was all the rave), I would say harassment in on-line gaming was almost exclusively a mens issue. It is only since women started using the internet heavily (who seem to have a tendency to whine and who's tears are well received by popular media) that this whole thing even got noticed. Trolling etc has been around since the start, but people only seem to care about women in this context.

White Knight Culture.

Broodaskani · 2014-11-05T20:16:35+00:00

On line harassment ?

It's just another night playing BF4 on line to me, I don't take the threats of someone who is probably under the age of 16 very seriously anyways.

Seriously if people find the internet that scary from what morons can say, stay off it.

sean_robinson132 · 2014-11-05T18:21:04+00:00

Thank you for making sense, cathy young

Arakin · 2014-11-05T20:29:48+00:00

"Online harassment" was a male only thing until the internet became widespread. The phrase "there's no girls on the internet" was common place/semi-joke back in the day, as it was basically true. "Online harassment" is gender neutral, and far more men are "victims" of it.

ugly_duck · 2014-11-05T16:50:01+00:00

So, how should we go about addressing it?

leftajar · 2014-11-05T20:03:22+00:00

Dear Time Magazine,

No fucking shit.

-Every male who's played an online video game.

csgardner · 2014-11-05T22:34:25+00:00

This seems to be the most common pattern in feminist crises these days.

Find an annoying thing.
Posit that "men don't have this problem." (No evidence required.)
Raise a ruckus
Profit!

kyroha · 2014-11-05T23:51:49+00:00

I really hope we don't start to see the same kind of cult of victimhood here that we see in feminism. Some people are assholes. Some people will always be that way. Get over it. Block them if you must. But don't go through life feeling like a victim because someone said some mean things to you. Unless someone is making credible threats against you than it just isn't an issue.

Title	Online Harassment Affects Men Too
Author	dejour
Upvotes	45
Comments	21
Date	November 5, 2014 4:30 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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