And, articles like this are my evidence that it's just not me doing a "get off my lawn".

UNSUBSCRIBE to AMAZON, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, and all the other crap that does continues to support all the evil that is slowly but surely destroying the World, all societies, not only the USA, are vulnerable to these disgusting behaviour and the more it happens the more people will think its normal. Many blame the parents but some of the parents are very good in trying hard to teach their kids good manners, empathy and good behaviour but social media destroys all that, some parents don't even know what it is their kids are looking at, and yes, they should but kids have ways of doing it away from home.

UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE! Nothing will be done until people take action and leave them, THEY CANNOT EXISTS WITHOUT US, so UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE.

I have done my part, I don't belong to any of that crap, Amazon is next, I just need to get some things done, and then I will not be a member until they stop supporting the evil bastards in the WH.

UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, do it, it is easy and the most patriotic thing we can do today. We have to hit them where it hurts more, their pockets, their bottom lines.

I don't have any social media accounts.
I get all the interaction I need here at DU & a musician's forum.

a lot of the reason for the proliferation of toxic bro/girl-hating rhetoric.

going on social media.

It's no different than the old days. If there was a neighborhood where bad things happened, we simply didn't go to that neighborhood.

I have no social media accounts.
Closest I come to that is DU & a similar forum for musicians.
I don't even go to chemistry forums anymore. Once I retired, I quit. And, there were no toxic influencers there. Still have no use for them.

... who blame women and girls for all their failures.

Many years ago my mom worked for a scientific journal in a field that was still dominated by men. Occasionally they'd publish a paper where the first author was a woman and some of the letters the journal received in return were vile, unpublishable, and far beyond anything that might be dismissed as academic rivalry.

The modern internet has given misogynistic losers a platform that they never had before.

In this case the bad neighborhood is the world….yet the men and boys are free to roam. Carry on!

you're saying she was asking for it. Got it.

someone would come in and say something like that

That was my immediate take. She should be able to go on social media. It's the boys and men who cause the problem.

Thanks for posting this.

The people making bad choices are the predator little bratty boys. Jeez.

yes, quite

You have to understand that kids don't have that mentality. There's no way a 15 year old is quitting Instagram. I'm far from 15, but as a Gen Xer, I can relate.

other idiot boys like them, to read their stupidity.

That girl needs to get out of Instagram, Facebook and all the other crap that is bothering her, why continue to look through that? Real friends will continue to be her friends whether she is part of those toxic websites, or not, and if they stop being her friends? then they were never friends, but the jackasses boys will not have her to bully, and the will weaken them in the end.

... through their penis."

Before that, saloons banned them outright, or had separate "ladies entrances" and private rooms

Maybe we should bring that back for social media?

WTF?

with a wide brush much?

Huh?

she could just stop going on Instagram since she has determined that it is causing problems in her life. She, and she alone, has the power to change her life.

... are the very definition of WEAKNESS. They are, in fact, superior to NO living thing. Well, maybe slime mold, but only just barely.

Suppose social media platforms required them to use their REAL names, and not some made-up handle. They might be a little more circumspect in their comments, if they dared to make any at all.

These creatures with Y chromosomes they have not earned deserve to be exposed for the snake shit they really are.

Is GiqueCee your real name?

The movie about him "The Social Network" showed how his platform was used for guys to "rate" a girl's looks. He was apparently dumped by a girlfriend and that started his revenge against women.

He was the nerd's nerd, if that makes sense. Creating "FACEbook" was his way of trying to elevate himself within the manosphere, of which he hadn't yet entered. Then all the "bros" would pat him on the back and acknowledge his presence in the world. Until then he was pretty much invisible to everyone.

Telling girls to simply “log off” or “don’t go there” ignores the reality that social media is woven into social life and that the hostility follows us into spaces we didn’t choose. The real issue isn’t our presence online I think, but rather a much broader failure to challenge the misogyny that is allowed to thrive there.

The solution is not to avoid social media. The solution is for everyone to reject sexist and misogynistic nonsense verbally as soon as it appears.

Men can do that, too. And should.

Women need to be present on these sites to fight the good fight.
Don't allow misogynist "boys" to own the script - they must be challenged.
Hiding won't change a thing.

...as telling women to avoid sidewalks and public streets. Saying “it’s her choice to walk near her home, if she doesn’t want abuse, she should just stay inside or move to another neighborhood” shifts responsibility away from the people causing harm. It treats harassment as default behavior. That argument isn’t just unhelpful, it’s a lazy way of excusing a much deeper problem.

Society is permitting open voice to the hatred. Beating girls and women down to just where they want us. You might say…not all men but the ‘nice ones*’….. don’t speak up. If they did they would have joined in the fight when row v wade went down. If they did our voting rights would not be on the chopping block! If they had this young person would not be seeing evil comments and threats. The sad thing is that when Iraq came home to the US it was a weed seed that took off with a vengeance. I guess Dick and * had a vision and here we are. Broken hearted for the young ones.

* I live with some nice ones….and they just don’t get the picture…….

I still sub when I want to, but when I was teaching full time, one of the subjects I taught was Health, which included Sex Ed. I made it VERY clear in my intro that I would not tolerate ANY reference to the young ladies in class as "females". As far as I was concerned, using that term reduced them. The girls would thank me, sometimes privately, often in open class. And there was always at least one who would say, "Yeah, and you can stop the "bitches and ho's while while you're at it." Unacceptable language in a classroom, but it always made me proud.

My settings have always been private to strangers are not able to read or comment on my feed. I do not understand why people would have a totally open social media account for anyone to comment on. Does Instagram have a privacy setting on it?

Run by sociopaths.

I have never done Twitter, Fakebook, Instagram, etc and I managed to survive without it.

When I left teaching several years ago I knew social media would become a problem very quickly. The writing was on the wall.

"The Gate to Women's Country
1988 novel by Sheri S. Tepper
The Gate to Women's Country is a post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Sheri S. Tepper, published in 1988. It describes a world set three hundred years into the future after a catastrophic war which has fractured the United States into several nations..."

Because I am very bitter.

Obsession with Jewish genes.

The problem is social media....

trying to understand why some men have the need to treat half of humanity as the enemy.

on humanity. I say this as a heterosexual male. I am ashamed of many of my peers.

Like anything used in the wrong fashion it will DESTROY anything and everything!!

Wasn't it a bunch of teen boys literally having a contest at a school, who could bed the most girls. It was probably 20 or 30 years ago. California I think.