Feminist Politics, Digg

My colleague said his friend got to the first page of Digg with a brand new website. A website where a "woman moaned your IP address." I remember reading Digg at my ex's house and seeing an awful lot of articles on the latest gadget or internet method. Digg is apparently mostly male.

What re-awakened me to feminism back in March was the appropriating of Jill Filipovic's photos by people completely able to mask their identity on the web. I have other interests in life, so I don't have the patience to learn all I need to know to be completely anonymous. Not to mention that the marketing practices of GoDaddy.com offended me, so I switched at least one of my domains to a host that didn't conceal my identity. But really, I'd much rather reveal my information than pay any money to an organization that just ASSUMES I'll be enticed by a scantily clad woman touted as a "girl." I like to put my money where my mouth is.

It seems to me that men have been more likely to want to learn the ins and outs of the internet, whereas women want to network and share. It also seems that people that know the ins and outs of the internet and even just computers in general think that anyone that doesn't know what they have spent years studying must be a complete moron. Furthermore, they must want attention, any kind of attention. A couple of years ago, one of these men made the decision that since we were even the slightest bit identifiable in our Live Journals and personal blogs that we must want our school's website to link to them directly. When we objected, we were told, essentially, "too bad, I found you in this obscure directory, why didn't you mask it??" Well, in the end, when this person consulted with the advisor for this project, we got our way, because we were right. Not to mention that a friend of mine said that as an alumni, the issue was making him seriously reconsider making any future donations. And since Jill put her photos on a publicly accessable website, she MUST have wanted people to oggle her body and defame her character.

My ex reads Digg, I signed up, but remembered that it was a pretty biased community. Wisdom of the masses often isn't.

Here are some Alternet pieces I liked tonight

Dogs > Women
I responded to one anti-feminist as SalB.
Feminists got Barbie some jobs, maybe we can do the same for these girls?
What happened to make-believe toys? When I was 5, the thing was My Little Pony. I never wanted to be a horse. I doubt little boys want to be cars that turn into robots.