But, this thread actually involves some philosophical content meant to inspire the reader to think. It's not full of posts like "Look at what I had for dinner! It was so YUM!"
If "everyone sucks" qualifies as deep thinking, I don't want to see what qualifies as mundane content. People complain about how everything sucks on Facebook.
This thread is a two way street of communication whereas someone posting their dinner is broadcasting. They don't really give a shit about what others have to think about their dinner just as long as other people see their dinner.
Have you been to the random thoughts and feelings threads lately?
You seem to be making the mistake that many people make these days of quantity over quality information. Which is exactly what social media(and most media) is.
People on websites such as this are usually good observers of the world. You are assuming that we all feel left out of the social media "fun". I can only speak for myself and say that never once have I had the desire to post a selfie on Facebook nor do I even have an account.
Now if I could post a selfie and be guaranteed of getting paid(like actual money and not just "likes" currency) I would be doing it all the time! haha
But that seems like a lot of work to broadcast for social validation for people who are doing the exact some thing as you and who couldn't care less about you or what you are doing.
A forum
is social media, but it's designed for relative anonymity and large quantities of text, which Facebook, Twitter, etc, are not made for. So people discuss in-depth here instead of where their mother and coworkers can see and where it's actually practical to write and keep track of conversations. Those who look before they condemn know that longer and more personal conversations often happen on Facebook in private, just like in real-life.
Just because there aren't selfies on this forum doesn't mean people aren't posting here for the same validation or recognition, especially when they post a short one-liner on the How Are You Feeling? thread and hope someone has something to say. Some inevitably don't, but you're kidding yourself if you think that many people don't post there because they want their feelings to be seen and potentially acknowledged the same way as someone who posts their new outfit.
This has become a tired argument. One that attempts to preemptively paint a man as a rapist if he insinuates that a woman who dresses and/or acts in a sexually provocative way shouldn't be surprised if she gets unwanted male attention.
It's a pretty big jump from unwanted male attention online to rape!
As a female, you are guaranteed to get a lot of male attention on the internet no matter what you do or don't invite.
This is because the internet has increased male sexual thirst while at the same time increasing female selectivity.
So what you get is guys en masse throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping that something sticks and girls hoping that one of the strands of spaghetti is a tall, rich doctor with an edgy look. hehe.
My gigantic leap was mocking your gigantic leap, and my argument still stands. Nothing gives men justification to do things like tell me I don't belong in STEM, should be doing creative work, and then make comments about how I probably want to be dominated sexually. Their needing to "throw spaghett" does not give them leave to speak the way that they often do, or to lie to me as they also often do.
How you carry yourself tells others alot about who yo are. Why dress immodestly if you don't want to be seen as sexualized object? In this regard it is purely vanity and a lack of self respect. These days all I hear is how everyone has rights, but what about responsibility? I don't see many of these same people raising their hands when it's time to take their share of responsibity. So in the end, their are good and bad things and you cannot conduct yourself shamefully and expect to absolve yourself from the repercussions of those deeds. The example you cited regarding rape is contextually flawed and merely a diversionary tactic ofteb used to win back lost ground in debates, I'm letting you off the hook that easily
Doesn't sound like a diversionary tactic when you're literally saying that women who "conduct themselves shamefully", aka dress provocatively, are only getting the natural repercussions. This is harmful to men as well, as it does in fact make you out to be animals who can't help themselves when that is far from the truth.
The problem with this attitude is that it stems from extremes which are inherently objectifying as people are not black and white. Everyone is sexual and everyone deserves respect. These things do not conflict with each other and the problem is only ever those
witnessing it.
But with thinking like this, either you are pure and you hide your sexuality, or you are a sexual object that does not get to complain if harmed or treated unkindly. There is no in-between where someone can be seen in a sexualized light while maintaining personhood and rights, despite the fact that people are, with a few exceptions, inherently sexual.
Which is far more unhealthy for society than anything complained about in threads like these, for both men and women.
