Archive for misogyny

Facebook to crack down on hate speech, will remove posts and images that promote violence against women

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I do not like Facebook. I hate using it, but many readers depend on our TPC page for our posts. My son used Facebook to make sure we knew he was okay after the Boston bombings (he was only two doors away from the second explosion). My former students use it to stay in touch with me. But if I felt I could eliminate Facebook from my life, I would.

It constantly glitches, it’s annoying to use, the format keeps changing, I keep getting pop-ups explaining what seems like daily adjustments to their features, and don’t get me started on the privacy issues and Mark Zuckerberg’s political group’s support of the filthy Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

I do not like Facebook. But I use it, very reluctantly. I look forward to the day I no longer rely on it, and I resent the reliance that I admit to, along with my own unwillingness to delete my account.

My personal page was once suspended for including this image as part of a post on women’s health care:

pregnant woman

They thought it was pornographic, apparently. My account was restored after I protested.

So a beautiful photo of a pregnant woman was considered porn, and my innocuous page was dispensed with immediately, but it took Facebook this long to crack down on actual, you know, misogyny and violence against women posts. Via the L.A. Times:

Activists say an online campaign to curb misogynist content on Facebook could be a watershed moment for a growing movement to remove posts and images that promote violence against women on the Web.

Women, Action and the Media launched the campaign last week, urging major companies to pull their advertisements from Facebook that could run alongside graphic language and images of rape, abuse and other violence against women.

Heeding the call, more than a dozen advertisers, including Nissan Motor Co. and Nationwide Building Society, removed their ads from Facebook, while others, such as American Express and Unilever’s Dove brand, pressured Facebook Inc. to remove the offending pages. [...]

Facebook, which makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising, said Tuesday that it is reviewing its guidelines to evaluate content that violates its standards and will train moderators to identify and remove hate speech.

Yes, money talks.

“Review” away, FB, because that’s worked so well for you in the past.

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Simi Valley tea party councilman called out for posting decapitation video and misogynistic content on Facebook

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Simi councilman Mike Judge

Over the past year, Mike Judge, a Simi Valley, California councilman, has posted links on his Facebook page to some offensive and racy websites. Very un-Simi-like of him. I taught in the Simi Valley school district for well over a decade, and it is a very conservative bedroom community. In fact, Simi and the porn industry have publicly clashed for some time now, including over the requirement that porn actors use condoms.

Did I mention that Mike Judge is an outspoken tea partier?

The pages he “liked” included “Fap Fap Fap” and “Big Fake Titties, Guns and other Manly Shit That Will Piss Your Girlfriend Off” (a page which, incidentally, has called Senator Feinstein a “moldy old c***”).

Judge’s own Facebook page is not set to private, so anyone can see what his, erm, preferences are.

Awhile back, the Simi Valley Acorn, a local paper out here in Ventura County, called him out because a minor stumbled across his Facebook page. He promised he would be “more careful” in the future.

Of course he would, because tea party members are fine, upstanding, honest, patriotic, family values citizens. And what did this fine, upstanding, honest, patriotic, family values tea partier do? Why he proceeded to post a video of a woman being beheaded with a pocketknife by drug cartel executioners.

The video came from BestGore.com, a torture and mutilation site that is also extremely anti-Semitic (they named Adolf Hitler as the greatest man of the 20th century). People are now want Judge to resign. Can’t for the life of me imagine why.

Via the Los Angeles Times:

But on Tuesday the Ventura County Democratic Party called for the Simi Valley Republican councilman’s resignation and censure after Judge linked to a graphic video of a woman being decapitated with a pocket knife. David Atkins, chair of the county Democratic Party, said the video appeared to depict a Mexican cartel murder.

“I started watching 10, 15 seconds of it before I clicked away. I’d seen enough,” he said. “When a councilman is a public figure and he starts sharing disturbing content like that from a website that’s basically torture porn … that’s a problem because people follow what he ‘likes.’ ” [...]

Atkins said the beheading video, which has been removed from Judge’s Facebook page, came from a website that features violent deaths, including executions, suicides and gruesome car wrecks.

But fine, upstanding, honest, patriotic, family values Councilman Judge then said, hey, this was all part of his police work, even though the crime wasn’t committed in the United States, and he never asked for help identifying the perpetrators when he posted it.

L.A. Times:

The nearly 23-year veteran of the LAPD said he didn’t go “trolling” for the pages, but that he “liked” them after male friends whom he described as being in the “alpha category” shared them with him.

Apprently Judge is also a fine, upstanding, honest, patriotic, family values, “alpha category” guy.

Here is The Acorn’s story describing how he was “called out not for his political views or votes but for his online profile—specifically, the types of pages he “likes” on Facebook, some of which contain scantily clad women in suggestive poses.”

According to The Acorn, an anonymous emailer who identified herself as “Simi Mother” had notified the local media, the city manager and city attorney, and the City Council—but not Judge, who is serving as mayor pro tem. She said, among other things, “He’s brought his private bedroom behavior to our bedroom community.” Per The Acorn:

[She] called out seven pages in particular, via screen shots of those pages attached to the email: Fap Fap Fap, Tactical Girls, Hot Chicks With Abs, Models Universe, Hot Mirror Shots and The Cougar Club. The other page name is not suitable for print; the page posts revealing photos of women, focusing on two body parts in particular.

The Acorn reached Judge, who said, sure, he “liked” the pages but sees them differently than “Simi Mother,” saying,

“There’s no porn on my Facebook. I know what pornography is, and I don’t consider any of that pornography… I have a lot of friends in the military, a lot of friends in law enforcement, so I get a lot of these things. Some people might find them distasteful, some might find them funny, that’s the way it is. I also post a lot of puppy pictures.

Awww, puppy pictures! See? He’s not so bad after all.

He also said that the woman complaining was out to get him. He has “unliked” several pages.

Republican War on Women? Naaah. Family values? Yeah, right. Pro-Life? I retort, you deride.

Another day, another GOP hypocrite.

reinvention my ass

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AUDIO– The always classy Rep. Gohmert (R-TX) insults Pelosi… again: “There’s no facelift with John Boehner. He is who he is.”

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O’Connor:

“So basically John Boehner became Nancy Pelosi without the charm?”

Gohmert:

“For the last two years. Let’s give him credit. There’s no facelift with John Boehner. He is who he is.”

The above clip is from GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert’s conversation with guest host Larry O’Connor on the Dennis Miller Show, courtesy of Think Progress.

This would be the same Louie Gohmert, a birther, who recently pushed a theory that President Obama helped oust Muammar Qaddafi “so that al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood could take over Libya”; who wants to arm teachers with assault rifles; who said that the shootings that took place in the Aurora, Colo. movie theater were a result of “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs” and questioned why nobody else in the theater had a gun to take down the shooter; who cast President Obama as an “evil emperor”; who joked about hitting “Nancy Pelosi” with a golf club; who lied at tea party rally: “I brought an abortion to show you”; who suggested that NYC 9/11 trials would be an “insane” gambit to create more jobs?

You get the idea.

This man is an elected representative. Elected!

And because he represents those who voted for him (they did what again?), then clearly, many of his fellow Texans feel it’s acceptable to desperately resort to jokes about a fellow Congress member’s appearance.

Then again, she’s just, you know, a woman.

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Cartoons of the Day- After The Election

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Audio- Todd Akin: McCaskill ‘Like One of Those Dogs: Fetch’

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Why the woman in this man’s state haven’t tarred and feathered him by now is beyond me.

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Homophobe Lawmaker Who Blasted Girl Scouts Gets Only 1 Donation Since

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I’m betting Mr Morris knows the bible pretty well, and I’m sure he’s heard this- “Reap and ye shall sow”.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana lawmaker who drew criticism for calling the Girl Scouts a radical group that promotes abortions and homosexuality has received only one campaign contribution in the months since that controversy.

The Journal Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/JuPIjM ) Rep. Bob Morris’ latest campaign finance report shows that between Jan. 1 and April 13 the Fort Wayne Republican raised $5,000 in a single donation from the Northeast Indiana PAC for Better Government.

Morris now has about $19,000 on hand. He’s facing Democrat Lee Jordan in the fall but Indiana’s online campaign finance database had not yet posted Jordan’s latest report.

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Video- Sh*t Allen West Says

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LOL, looks like the Florida Dems are in fighting mode. It’s really kinda scary when you see them all together.

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