Tag Archives: Twitter

Quick Hit: Racist tweeps demand White History Month

TweetToday is the first day of February. That means the start of Black History Month… and an occasion for predictable but still infuriating racism. Running Chicken has compiled some of the many, many tweets out there today insisting that the ever-oppressed white majority must be honored as well. A common trend is the preemptively defensive [...]
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Anti-Feminist Tweetbag: Illegible Cowboy Edition

Tweet We already have our Anti-Feminist Mailbag series, but when Miriam brought this gem to my attention, I could not turn down the opportunity to bring our Twitter haters into the mix. Because who could resist a guy who photoshops his face onto a shirtless cowboy picture? *Swoon* It’s the little things that make me [...]
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Keith Olbermann responds to #MooreandMe Twitter protest in the worst possible way

TweetIf you’ve been on Twitter in the last week, it’s probably been hard to miss the Twitter protest against Michael Moore for dismissing and mischaracterizing the rape accusations against Julian Assange—first in a post announcing he was posting bail for Assange and then on Keith Olbermann’s show. Launched by Sady Doyle and Jaclyn Friedman last [...]
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Twitter hashtag brings first person abortion narratives to light

TweetWe’ve mentioned the #ihadanabortion hashtag that has been gaining popularity on twitter before. The Nation has an interview with the person who started the trend, Steph Herold (aka IAmDrTiller on twitter) and Aspen Baker, the founder of Exhale. For those who don’t know twitter, a hashtag is a word that people include in their tweets, [...]
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Palin want a cracker?

Tweet #Ohnoshedidnt. Sarah Palin is not only hijacking the term “feminist”, but is now co-opting feminists’ charge that she’s co-opting feminism. It’s like she’s completely incapable of conjuring up any original thought on her own. And if she can only manage to bite off everything this “cackle of rads” have to say, what exactly does [...]
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