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With media so heavily focused on bad men, you might begin to think that there aren't any good ones left. To find out if this was the case, Twitter user @emrazz addressed their 137K followers, asking all males to share their experience in standing up to misogyny. (Facebook cover image: Alan Kotok)

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The tweet received 833 responses in just two days. And it wasn't just men telling their stories. Folks of both genders were applauding these random acts of kindness, saying their faith in humanity had just been restored.

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Leekun
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If she's drunk, it doesn't matter what she says. Even if she begs and screams to go with them. She is not in full consciousness and might not even have a clue about what she is doing. Drunk = No consent. A-Holes should really learn this

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Replace "women" with "anyone" and you've got a perfect statement. Good on the guy for standing up to the sleazebag though.

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Monika Soffronow
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great! If the only ones standing up to such "jokes" are women, they will quickly be labeled rabid feminist bitches and thus overlooked, or worse, the "joker" will get spurred on. It is absolutely necessary that men stand up against other men on these matters.

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Seeing this kind of activity on Twitter is especially interesting. The social network was dubbed as "a toxic place for women" by Amnesty International after the organization conducted a study there. Calling it Troll Patrol, the researchers used crowdsourcing, data sience & machine learning to "measure violence and abuse against women on Twitter."

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Tor Rolf Strøm
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, America's funniest home videos censor nude children on the show, so maybe talk to your country about that.

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Agnes Jekyll
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A friend's son quit his after-school electronica club because girls are recruited, then made secretary. He complained, nothing changed, he left.

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"Our findings reveal the sheer scale and nature of online abuse faced by women and provides a resource to researchers and engineers interested in exploring the potential of machine learning in content moderation," Amnesty International wrote. "These findings are the result of a collaboration between Amnesty International and Element AI, a global artificial intelligence software product company. Together, we surveyed millions of tweets received by 778 journalists and politicians from the UK and US throughout 2017 representing a variety of political views, and media spanning the ideological spectrum. Using cutting-edge data science and machine learning techniques, we were able to provide a quantitative analysis of unprecedented scale of online abuse against women in the UK and USA."

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Ruby Brook
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I applaud that! Sometimes people too easily focus on being extremely angry at the person who rejected them instead of respecting them. That can lead to some really problematic situations.

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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My cousin's college friend created a shaming group to shame the girl who rejected him. He was suspended, apparently. And that's the thing about dating, if you can't accept rejection, your ego is too big. You're unfit for any kind of relationship unless you learn some f*****g manners. People think they are entitled to the person they like. *Sheesh*

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blugeagua
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, that nephew was REALLY an a*****e for thinking that she somehow owed him attention and how dare she have the choice to not want to be with him! Guys like that make me sick.

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Aileen
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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or the guys who ask a girl to go out with them or do something dirty with them, and then when the girl says no, especially when it’s because she’s taken, the guy starts insulting her and calling her names that imply she sleeps with a lot of guys, then the guy finishes by insulting her physical appearance. There’s just so much that’s wrong with that.

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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have seen SO many screenshots from friends of conversations with men who went NUTS after being told "no thanks." I'm talking long strings of vile, harassing messages calling the woman every name in the book until she finally blocks him. Have seen men say truly messed up things like "I bet you hate men because you got molested," or tell a woman he hopes she gets raped. What the ACTUAL f**k is wrong with men? That kind of c**p happens way too often. We all get rejected - I've definitely felt the sting - and sure it sucks, but what the hell kind of person thinks it's okay to react that way?

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OMG so toxic! He would surely have went on to cut up women into little pieces if that comment had gone unnoticed! You just saved the world from a serial killer. FHEW

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Dilly Millandry
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It speaks to his attitude to women, possibly people, generally though. If it encourages him to just be a nicer person - good.

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Together, they found out that "7.1% of tweets sent to the women in the study were 'problematic' or 'abusive.' This amounts to 1.1 million tweets mentioning 778 women across the year, or one every 30 seconds."

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just say you don't understand the joke and ask them to explain exactly why they think it's funny.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

gee, when my boys were 3, they were all about doing stuff like that to GIVE TO MOMMY. why assume that they want it for themselves? and even if they did, so what??? children are TAUGHT stereotypes, racism, etc, it's not something they come up with on their own

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Furthermore, women of color, (black, Asian, Latinx and mixed-race women) were 34% more likely to be mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets than white women. "Black women were disproportionately targeted, being 84% more likely than white women to be mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets."

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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every kid should be able to choose themselves with which toy to play or what kind toy to get from their parents (as much as it's possible or realistic, of course)

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Among its conclusions, the study stated that "Twitter's data states that 2.8 million unique accounts were reported for abuse of which Twitter actioned 248,000 – approximately 9%. However, the data published only reflects unique accounts that were reported for abuse and actioned. Twitter should also publish the total number of tweets reported for abuse and hateful conduct - disaggregated by category - in order to avoid potentially underplaying the true scale of abuse on the platform."

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Wil Vanderheijden
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once my boss was harrassing an intern by make comments on how nice she looked and that he would love to spend some private time with her. I told him that I'd love to spend some private time with his wife to tell her what a jerk he was. Didn't change him much but at least it changed the way he treated female coworkers.

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Chris Jones
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did he need a sandwich made if he had lunch? Though I totally agree with the outcome I'm just feeling a bit confused.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Gender don't have anything to do with it.

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Ruby Brook
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes every friend group needs a bit of a "wet blanket" so that jokes don't go to far. Even if something is considered a joke by some people it can become toxic if it gets taken too far...

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Daria B
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was freakin' pushing her baby in a stroller and they still..... What do these men have their heads for? Decoration? Because obviously there's no brain within those skulls. We need more people like the brave guy who confronted them.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Men call me little girl all the time. I am 30 damn years old and definitely not little!

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyday at work I have a customer that comes and call me names , like : Hey how you doing? Me: Thank you , fine , what about you? Him: you are sooo sexy, Oh my god you are soooo sexy...why don´t you give me your number and we go out? Me: NO thank you He: why not? I can come to your house and we can drink something? Miziii pitziii sexy girl , baby you are looking goooooddd - THIS IS EVERYDAY and I am sooo sick of that. I´m ignoring him when he starts talk to me this way but he don´t stop. AND he has a wife and kids at home. This is so disgusting, he disgusts me! I have no problem with people tell me I am looking good or something but he is doing that in a disgusting way. And when I say he should please stop with this he say´s why? I should take this as a compliment that a man like him is attracted to me......

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