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The Twitter surge #YesAllWomen is a useless weapon against endemic misogyny
Fionolo Meredith sympathizes with the angry and pain behind the #YesAllWomen movements. However, Meredith argues the hashtag is useless against endemic misogyny. Meredith believes the #YesAllWomen movement will be forgotten when another controversial…
There's a battle going on over the Wikipedia page for #YesAllWomen
The backlash over the #YesAllWomen hashtag spread to Wikipedia. Users edited the page to make it less "misandrist" and to gave the page what they perceived to be a more neutral point of view. Kate Dries's article documents the changes made to the…
Transcript of Elliot Rodgers's Retribution Youtube video
Elliott Rogers posted a youtube video before the Isla Vista Shooting. He claims he is seeking retribution because women rejected him. His video is cited as evidence of the sense of entitlement men have towards women and sex.
Vox's Tweet
The blog, Vox, tweeted how seven in ten assaults against women are perpetrated by an intimate partner. They include a graph demonstrating their tweet. This tweet shows how major blogs and new sites were discussing the #YesAllWomen hashtag. It also…
Why YesAllWomen took off on twitter
Emanuella Grinberg examines the importance of #YesAllWomen. The hashtag, with over 1.2 million tweets after the first couple of days of its start, outpaced other hashtags that focused on women's rights. Grinberg argues #Yesallwomen is important…