Tag Archives: Stalking
Nearly 1 in 5 women in the U.S. has been sexually assaulted
Tweet**Trigger warning** Nearly one in five women in the U.S. has been sexually assaulted. That’s the most headline-grabbing statistic from an important new study released by the CDC yesterday. Based on a nationally representative phone survey, the report offers a comprehensive and depressing look at the epidemic of sexual and domestic violence in this country. Here [...]
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Facebook’s “stalker” application.
Tweet“Stalking” seems to have become the stand-in word for checking someone out on Facebook. I have been thinking a lot about how it says so much about how we feel about viewing other people’s information on Facebook. Information on Facebook is volunteered information and Facebook has several privacy settings (albeit hard to use sometimes), but [...]
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How to win black “friends” and influence people on the internet
Tweet When I met Anna (Feministing’s awesome community moderator) in person for the first time, she recognized me right away — because, she confessed, “I creeped you on Facebook.” I love this turn of phrase. “Stalk” has long been the verb of choice to describe the type of checking-people-out-online that we all do. I’ve always [...]
Also tagged Harassment, People of Color, Race, Racism, Sexism, Technology Comments closed
Bud Light: There is a Fine Line Between Stalking and Romance?
TweetReally, Bud Light? I was think it is more like a brick wall, but OK. Tweet
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Friday Feminist Fuck You: Hunter Moore