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A Twitter Hashtag Probably Doesn't Prove Feminists Want to Kill All Men
The Twitter hashtag #killallmen, which started trending last May, has finally reached conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's ears. His site, InfoWars, ran a story Monday about how "feminists have misappropriated the women’s rights movement into an excuse for hating men."
www.theatlantic.com
#Killallmen can't be a joke, because if men joked that way, it wouldn't be funny, MRAs reason. Not fair. As Paul Joseph Watson at InfoWars writes, "Imagine the outrage if a group of male bigots had descended on the social network to promote the trend #killallwomen – accounts would be deleted and feminists would be up in arms at such a brazen display of misogyny. However, when the shoe is on the other foot, violent man-hating rhetoric is apparently perfectly acceptable."
Twitter feminists using #killallmen are not going to get MRAs — or Alex Jones — laughing. But maybe scaring them just a little is okay. As Grist writer Jess Zimmerman tweeted last time the hashtag was trending,
About #killallmen…I'm not into that rhetoric, but what, does it make you feel threatened? Like your gender is a danger? JOIN THE CLUB
— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) May 7, 2013
but a rape joke is not okay even if it's "just a little joke"
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