Women rated like cups: unfiltered digital misogyny
A thread of barely ten posts shows how women are objectified on anonymous forums. Tattoos, promiscuity and contempt: the handbook of digital misogyny.
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Choosing between two women as if they were cups: the handbook of digital misogyny
A thread of barely ten replies in a subforum called Guardería (Daycare) sums up the state of digital misogyny. Without shame or filter, participants reduce two women to objects of comparison: visible tattoos, estimated age, presumed promiscuity. The cup, in this context, is not a container but a metaphor for objectification.
The pick goes to the option without tattoos, considered less of an «old hen». The criterion is as arbitrary as it is offensive: the age and sensual history of people they have never met are simply assumed. Misogyny dresses itself up as crude humour, but the message is crystal clear: a woman's worth is measured by her looks and her «availability».
Only a couple of dissenting voices call the thread «disgusting» and «vile», but the prevailing tone is contempt. Meanwhile, the question in the title —which cup would you pick?— reveals the core of it: women as disposable objects. In reality, the choice is not made by the thread but by the reader: to take it as a joke or to call it out as a symptom.
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A thread of barely ten replies in a subforum called Guardería (Daycare) sums up the state of digital misogyny. Without shame or filter, participants reduce two women to objects of comparison: visible tattoos, estimated age, presumed promiscuity. The cup, in this context, is not a container but a metaphor for objectification.
The pick goes to the option without tattoos, considered less of an «old hen». The criterion is as arbitrary as it is offensive: the age and sensual history of people they have never met are simply assumed. Misogyny dresses itself up as crude humour, but the message is crystal clear: a woman's worth is measured by her looks and her «availability».
Only a couple of dissenting voices call the thread «disgusting» and «vile», but the prevailing tone is contempt. Meanwhile, the question in the title —which cup would you pick?— reveals the core of it: women as disposable objects. In reality, the choice is not made by the thread but by the reader: to take it as a joke or to call it out as a symptom.
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