I just.....read stuff sometimes and fucking despair:

https://storify.com/JessicaValenti/w...s-a-question-o

Dayum.

That girl needs to find better/other twitter friends.

Oh those weren't her friends :p Just the standard onslaught of naastiness directed at everybody but especially women and especially women writing about feminism. 'Cause nothing convinces a feminist to stfu like outright misogyny :P

If it happens continually, with out fail, it might.

Yeah - I know. That's why it really gets to me sometimes when I see it.

The intolerant, the insane, the provocative, the odd, the aggressive, the foul mouthed, the abusive, the misogonyst and the wilful contrarian have always existed.

There was always the individual who would shout a profanity or extreme opinion as you passed in a crowded shopping centre or in the ticket hall of a Tube station.

We could quickly forget him, or occasionally her, but now we have the internet we invite them into our homes. Sadly things won't change.

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I counted five responses in the story to her twitter question. they were uniformly stupid/coarse/hateful/stupid. But it looks like the story's been edited... Dana, could you check it again and see if it's been changed?

I think the few comments that are there are worthless in regard to answering the question. Given the relative anonymity of the twitterverse, they're easy enough to overlook, hateful though they are.

I never spend time on Twitter, but I went there to try to find her original tweet and the comments.

It's here. https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/s...90148663582720

Scrolling through her page was very tiring, and I found myself disliking her by the time I found her original tweet. She's like a feminist version of Merc. A one trick hammer. Just pounding away at a single topic. Even though I agreed with her, I couldn't take it any more.

Oh, yeah, she's not a very fun writer that's for sure lol

And I suspect (and hope) that the tweets that aren't utterly hateful might outweigh the hateful ones. It was the particular tone and angle of those tweets that made me shiver.

This will have to do:

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:D

I just had my flu jab.

I don't qualify for a free vaccination on grounds of age (honest!) but because I look after my Dad.
The Health Centre sets aside four Saturday mornings during October and November for 'flu sessions' and you pitch up on the appropriate day as defined by the initial letter of your surname.
Very well organised and, despite a long queue, only a few minutes to wait.

Should be a cough, sneeze and wheeze free Winter. I hope.:eek:

I'm on my telesales shift and just had a call that floored me. Woman lost her daughter lst week. She started to tell me and then completely broke down. Was on phone with her for about 8 minutes. I was fighting down sobs myself when the call ended. had totake a few mins to compose myself.

Jesus, Dana, I'm sorry for you and for her.

I just... passed my citizenship test.

Congrats! Did you take the American English; or, the British English version?