{"id":186,"date":"2014-10-30T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/?p=186"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:29:56","slug":"a-reference-list-of-excuses-for-rape-and-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"A Reference List of Excuses for Rape and Death Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

It must be exhausting to come up with yet another new excuse to treat women horribly, so here’s a list for easy reference. Just pick one and you’ll be instantly believed by a large percentage of the internet, with no other actions necessary on your part!<\/em><\/p>\n

Because ethics in gaming journalism.<\/p>\n

Because she talked about not liking catcalling.<\/p>\n

Because she wants to see women represented on her nation’s currency.<\/p>\n

Because she thinks women should be treated equally as scientists.<\/p>\n

Because she talked about sexism in book review practices.<\/p>\n

Because she is causing deep rifts in the atheist movement.<\/p>\n

Because she’s talking about academic philosophy’s deep misogyny problem.<\/p>\n

Because she spoke out against a prominent skeptic’s sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

Because she spoke out against a prominent broadcast personality’s sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

Because she spoke out against any man’s sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

Because she stood up next to any other woman and said “I believe her”.<\/p>\n

Because she makes art that talks about her experience as a woman.<\/p>\n

Because doesn’t do femininity in the way you think she should.<\/p>\n

Because she has no interest in conforming to “proper, self-respecting, chaste” womanhood.<\/p>\n

Because she has no interest in conforming to the idea of wild, nymphomaniac whore.<\/p>\n

Because she is having wild, fantastic sex with other people and not with you.<\/p>\n

Because her womanhood is not tied to the sex she was assigned at birth.<\/p>\n

Because she wants to read books about women.<\/p>\n

Because she writes books about women.<\/p>\n

Because she wants to play games with women main characters.<\/p>\n

Because she’s making games with women main characters.<\/p>\n

Because she’s only getting attention in her Sailor Moon costume because she’s “con hot”.<\/p>\n

Because she isn’t hot enough to be in a Sailor Moon costume.<\/p>\n

Because her skin color isn’t right for Sailor Moon.<\/p>\n

Because she said that she doesn’t want men touching her when she wears a costume.<\/p>\n

Because she said that she doesn’t want men touching her at work.<\/p>\n

Because she speaks out about how women only have a place at tech conferences if they’re scantily-clad booth babes.<\/p>\n

Because she works as a booth babe.<\/p>\n

Because she doesn’t think “make me a sandwich” jokes are funny.<\/p>\n

Because she called out sexist language in speeches.<\/p>\n

Because she called out misogyny in journalism.<\/p>\n

Because she’s tired of seeing herself reflected as a sexual plaything in almost every bit of popular media ever.<\/p>\n

Because she isn’t the perfect reflection of a sexual plaything that every bit of popular media ever has made men expect.<\/p>\n

Because she dared ask for a better world.<\/p>\n

Because she has a voice and is using it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must be exhausting to come up with yet another new excuse to treat women horribly, so here’s a list for easy reference. Just pick one and you’ll be instantly believed by a large percentage of the internet, with no other actions necessary on your part! Because ethics in gaming journalism. Because she talked about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisview.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}