there’s been the rise of the ideal that all opinions are equal, confrontation, unless approved by the talking heads online, is bad, and everyone need to feel safe, heard, and their opinions as valid (at least to a degree)
We can best deal with this weaponized misogyny by calling people out - especially kids - as it crops up.
Just to be clear, we call it out IRL. I 100% agree there.
Calling out tatertots and such online is feeding the trolls, and counterproductive. They thrive on the discord because algorithms love it, so the best move is to pretend they’re invisible, just like with real narcissists.
I see a lot of online sentiment of “we stay to fight,” especially on Reddit and Twitter, when that’s exactly what’s feeding the machine. Finite attention is so much better elsewhere.
Calling it out in person works a lot better than online. Online it’s just mean words on a screen they have to deal with. A living, breathing person telling them they are dumb has more sting.
Just to be clear, we call it out IRL. I 100% agree there.
Calling out tatertots and such online is feeding the trolls, and counterproductive. They thrive on the discord because algorithms love it, so the best move is to pretend they’re invisible, just like with real narcissists.
I see a lot of online sentiment of “we stay to fight,” especially on Reddit and Twitter, when that’s exactly what’s feeding the machine. Finite attention is so much better elsewhere.
Calling it out in person works a lot better than online. Online it’s just mean words on a screen they have to deal with. A living, breathing person telling them they are dumb has more sting.