Earlier this year, a minor teen male was "stressed out and embarrassed" because his former girlfriend pasted his image all over Google, under such unloving messages such as "I can't read"; that rocker Kenny Loggins "is my saviour"; that he's working in the gym "on my two pack"; that he's "every man's prison dream"; that he's gay. Another talks about his "dick" and another about cybersex. He comes in for further ridicule with an assessment of his fashion sense: "V-necks. Mom jeans."
The newspapers printed his name, his picture, and some of the cruel slogans (some couldn't be printed in a family newspaper). It was all over the web, and it was generally given the lighthearted treatment about "a woman scorned" and about how he shouldn't have messed with a woman who has internet capabilities. See, e.g., http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354432/Hell-hath-fury-Girl-gets-revenge-ex-boyfriend-spamming-Google-image.html
Funny, isn't it, to humiliate a young man on the world's leading search engine. And nobody can do a damn thing about it, except chuckle at his predicament.
Compare that treatment to this story in the news today: "A New Mexico man's decision to lash out with a billboard ad saying his ex-girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes has touched off a legal debate over free speech and privacy rights." http://beta.news.yahoo.com/jilted-ex-boyfriend-puts-abortion-billboard-194142831.html Read the whole thing.
That has triggered a debate about the Constitution. The AP won't even name her.
Down, down, down the rabbit hole we go. A teen boy is allowed to be skewered because he apparently angered his ex-girlfriend. But a man isn't allowed to announce that, against his wishes, a woman aborted the child, or would-be child, he fathered. She has total control over whether his child is born, and he's not even allowed to exercise his First Amendment right to speak up about it.
I don't even recognize this country any more.
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Any idea what the young ladies name is?
I was thinking of taking that picture of his, and writing VERY VERY POSITIVE things.
I guarantee, I could get tons of women his age banging down his door for a date.
Heaven help that young woman if I EVER get a hold of her name and picture.
"he shouldn't have messed with a woman who has internet capabilities"
--- All women in western societies have access to the Internet. Anytime a male does anything a female doesn't like comes under the category of messing with her. I guess the semi-solution is to reduce all male socializing with females.
As for another example of the Internet and double-standards, there was that relatively recent University case of a coed's creative description of her private sexual experiences with Duke athletes that went viral. She received limited criticism with most people laughing at the male athletes while she received that you go girl support.
Atlas
Grotesque. Pay close attention to this guys, as it has become the new trend of men shamming. Now it is more important than ever to avoid sociopaths and to leave unhealthy relationships. Internet shamming is persistent...it will remain. Any piece of important info (pictures, voice recordings, personal data, etc.) all can be digitalized and broadcasted in the internet. Consider the case of a potential employer googling this guy's name. For more info read "The Future of Reputation" by Daniel Solove to understand this phenomenon.
Grotesque. Pay close attention to this guys, as it has become the new trend of men shamming. Now it is more important than ever to avoid sociopaths and to leave unhealthy relationships. Internet shamming is persistent...it will remain. Any piece of important info (pictures, voice recordings, personal data, etc.) all can be digitalized and broadcasted in the internet. Consider the case of a potential employer googling this guy's name. For more info read "The Future of Reputation" by Daniel Solove to understand this phenomenon.
"I don't even recognize this country any more."
Cryptic, but true.
Wait, wait... I think this is some flagrant BS too, but c'mon, we're better than that.
Case 1 is some girl being a royal see you next Tuesday online.
Case 2 is some man upset (justifiably), wanting to purchase billboard space, and the world coming down on him for it.
Case 1 is the interwebs. Case 2 is more tangible. If the man from Case 2 was internet-savvy he could do just as much, if not more, damage than he could with some billboard and likely for less cash.
There are many things to be outraged about and this instance is certainly infuriating but let's not stoop to the level of the other side with false equivalence.
On that note, how about contacting the man and seeing how we could help?
LT, when you contact the man, let us know what you accomplish.
My post posited a valid comparison.
The American gender-Raunch community "Empower" themselves by perversion of our courts, and even day to day perversions of law enforcement protocol, in order to manufacture more faulty and inflammatory agitation propaganda.
Definitely my error on this one; I hadn't read the link before I posted. I was thinking he was trying to get his ad on a billboard, not that it was already up there.
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