The Curbside Prophet
I am a mid-twenties avid intersectional feminist, advocate, fighter, counselor, and friend. I will be graduating from Bucknell University in May with degrees in Psychology and Women’s & Gender Studies. I work with survivors of sexual assault and other trauma, and I fix computers for a living.
I often blog about what it is like to live at the intersections of a few different mental illnesses, queerness, and sexuality, along with posts about sexism, racism, rape culture, and LGBT rights. There is a trigger warning for these on my entire blog. You will see posts about depression, eating disorders, PTSD, panic disorder, and fat activism. This has been my safe space for four years now, and I reserve the right to ask you to leave it if necessary.
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unknowablewoman:
I don’t particularly care to rehash all of the garbage he spewed on Twitter yesterday, but I wanted to briefly showcase some of the most disturbing messages that Tumblr politics tag editor Alexander Ryking posted on a public forum last night. I just have one question: is this mature, professional behavior? Is this the type of person you want curating your tag content, Tumblr? Reblog if your answer is a resounding NO.
In order, here’s just what we’ve got in the screencap—he says similar things on his personal Tumblr all the time, but I thought it was important to point out that his troubled behavior is now spilling over to other media:
calling women morons, feminazis and cunts
equating the denial of “misandry” (a concept that is overwhelmingly rejected by everyone who understands gender politics) to denying scientific consensus
stating that women who dislike him must have “daddy issues”
again with the “daddy issues” thing, which IMO is the most grossly sexist part of this entire tirade
equating women to dogs
telling feminists to go die
This isn’t about removing him from the position of editor because of political disagreements; after all, Ryking isn’t a conservative! This is about baseless personal attacks against women specifically (although non-women who disagree with him about “feminazis” have incurred his wrath as well) and for no reason other than they identify as feminists. I cannot stress enough that these attacks take place in an internet culture where being an outspoken, visible woman online will routinely earn you death threats, sexual harassment, and acts of intimidation. Here we have someone completely oblivious to the way his words contribute to that atmosphere, and yet we’re supposed to trust him to edit the official politics tag? How can we believe that this man’s raging misogyny doesn’t spill over into that? It’s absolutely unacceptable.
I can’t believe someone like this is a moderator…
HOLY FUCK, IS SOMEBODY HAVING AN OPINION?
How do you know this is baseless, to me it looks like he has a reason to act like this.
calling women morons, feminazis and cunts
He called ONE woman a moron, Feminazi and a cunt. and who knows, she might of been one.
equating the denial of “misandry” (a concept that is overwhelmingly rejected by everyone who understands gender politics) to denying scientific consensus
-can’t comment much here-
stating that women who dislike him must have “daddy issues”
Again, How do you know that she doesn’t have daddy issues? You’re grouping this one person as all women which is making you seem more sexist.
again with the “daddy issues” thing, which IMO is the most grossly sexist part of this entire tirade
Having father issues = Sexism. HOLY FUCK, BECAUSE MEN NEVER HAVE FATHER ISSUES, NEVER [cough]
equating women to dogs
ONE woman as a dog.
telling feminists to go die
When the hell did he say that? I don’t remember seeing that.
Jesus get off your soap box and actually look at the fucking evidence before you preach.
The funny thing about this is that she did look at her evidence before she preached. And this isn’t preaching, it’s calling someone out for being a terrible person.
On the internet, it’s common knowledge that the acronym ‘DIAF’ is ‘die in a fire.’ Which is clearly stated in the last tweet on this list.
Clearly you don’t know much about Alexander Ryking. All of his politics, if one can call them politics, have to do with how much he hates women. These conclusions are not simply from this set of tweets (though they would be just as supported if they were; there’s enough here to determine everything Raven has said without looking into his history), they are from a long-standing tradition he has of using sexist language like calling women ‘feminazis’, cunts, and bitches, and exhibiting enormous amounts of misogyny and sexism in all of his interactions with or discussions about the women on tumblr who dare call him out.
I would suggest that you do the same thorough investigation of evidence before you call foul. Had you done so, you might have reached the appropriate conclusion: Ryking’s a misogynistic, sexist, women-hating douchebag. Unfortunately, you just made yourself look like an idiot. It’s okay though, we’re all entitled to our opinions. Right?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzafu9pHwe1qiqc48o1_500.png)
I don’t particularly care to rehash all of the garbage he spewed on Twitter yesterday, but I wanted to briefly showcase some of the most disturbing messages that Tumblr politics tag editor Alexander Ryking posted on a public forum last night. I just have one question: is this mature, professional behavior? Is this the type of person you want curating your tag content, Tumblr? Reblog if your answer is a resounding NO.
In order, here’s just what we’ve got in the screencap—he says similar things on his personal Tumblr all the time, but I thought it was important to point out that his troubled behavior is now spilling over to other media:
- calling women morons, feminazis and cunts
- equating the denial of “misandry” (a concept that is overwhelmingly rejected by everyone who understands gender politics) to denying scientific consensus
- stating that women who dislike him must have “daddy issues”
- again with the “daddy issues” thing, which IMO is the most grossly sexist part of this entire tirade
- equating women to dogs
- telling feminists to go die
This isn’t about removing him from the position of editor because of political disagreements; after all, Ryking isn’t a conservative! This is about baseless personal attacks against women specifically (although non-women who disagree with him about “feminazis” have incurred his wrath as well) and for no reason other than they identify as feminists. I cannot stress enough that these attacks take place in an internet culture where being an outspoken, visible woman online will routinely earn you death threats, sexual harassment, and acts of intimidation. Here we have someone completely oblivious to the way his words contribute to that atmosphere, and yet we’re supposed to trust him to edit the official politics tag? How can we believe that this man’s raging misogyny doesn’t spill over into that? It’s absolutely unacceptable.
I can’t believe someone like this is a moderator…
HOLY FUCK, IS SOMEBODY HAVING AN OPINION?
How do you know this is baseless, to me it looks like he has a reason to act like this.
- calling women morons, feminazis and cunts
He called ONE woman a moron, Feminazi and a cunt. and who knows, she might of been one.
- equating the denial of “misandry” (a concept that is overwhelmingly rejected by everyone who understands gender politics) to denying scientific consensus
-can’t comment much here-
- stating that women who dislike him must have “daddy issues”
Again, How do you know that she doesn’t have daddy issues? You’re grouping this one person as all women which is making you seem more sexist.
- again with the “daddy issues” thing, which IMO is the most grossly sexist part of this entire tirade
Having father issues = Sexism. HOLY FUCK, BECAUSE MEN NEVER HAVE FATHER ISSUES, NEVER [cough]
- equating women to dogs
ONE woman as a dog.
- telling feminists to go die
When the hell did he say that? I don’t remember seeing that.
Jesus get off your soap box and actually look at the fucking evidence before you preach.
The funny thing about this is that she did look at her evidence before she preached. And this isn’t preaching, it’s calling someone out for being a terrible person.
On the internet, it’s common knowledge that the acronym ‘DIAF’ is ‘die in a fire.’ Which is clearly stated in the last tweet on this list.
Clearly you don’t know much about Alexander Ryking. All of his politics, if one can call them politics, have to do with how much he hates women. These conclusions are not simply from this set of tweets (though they would be just as supported if they were; there’s enough here to determine everything Raven has said without looking into his history), they are from a long-standing tradition he has of using sexist language like calling women ‘feminazis’, cunts, and bitches, and exhibiting enormous amounts of misogyny and sexism in all of his interactions with or discussions about the women on tumblr who dare call him out.
I would suggest that you do the same thorough investigation of evidence before you call foul. Had you done so, you might have reached the appropriate conclusion: Ryking’s a misogynistic, sexist, women-hating douchebag. Unfortunately, you just made yourself look like an idiot. It’s okay though, we’re all entitled to our opinions. Right?
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