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“These changes are long overdue, and while Gfrorer’s tweet was nothing to be proud of, she was clearly on the receiving end of the kind of abuse that the new guidelines are meant to stop. So it’s kind of like the kid who gets bullied all the time, finally fits back and is the one collared for starting the fight.”

So, Twitter should put an end to abusive and threatening tweets but not when they person is returning abuse? It’s OK then? I understand there can be a lot going on around each tweet but the basic story is she sent a tweet threatening to rape someone, joke or no joke, and under the new guidelines she was suspended for making that tweet. Your reaction/takeaway of “But she didn’t started it – they should just ban the one who first makes abusive remarks” is just ludicrous.

Now, I don’t say this should be a permanent suspension, I’m not saying that, but I look at this situation and I 100% agree with Twitter that she was in the wrong.

Agree with Twitter that I should have been suspended for the comment, but you don’t agree with Twitter that I should be suspended for the comment? Okay, thanks for weighing in.

TCW, you agree with Twitter that I should have been suspended for the comment, but you don’t agree with Twitter that I should be suspended for the comment? Okay, thanks for weighing in.

“So, Twitter should put an end to abusive and threatening tweets but not when they person is returning abuse? It’s OK then?”

Yes, TCW, it IS okay then. An intelligent person who’s interested in actually working toward the just treatment of all people, instead of a dullard scoring points against strangers from oppressed groups behind an internet pseudonym, is capable of making that distinction.

This article fails to demonstrate that anyone but the cartoonist, who tweeted a threat of rape herself, deserved to be blocked.

I don’t doubt the situation but this article fails to actually make the point. If I’m judging only from what I read in this blog here, the right person was banned.

If the other guys made threats like this and didn’t just “inserted himself into that conversation to suggest that violent feminist rhetoric like ours is the real cause of rape” then those examples should have been included – but as it is presented here, this guy was just annoying and was threatened with rape for his troubles.

I don’t think that’s cool.

“His troubles” is a nice way to gloss over a torrent of MRA-speak mansplaining invective thrown at women constantly, and the mock offense when someone lashes out is basically just “WHEN’S WHITE HISTORY MONTH?” dressed up in a fedora.

What’s not cool is tone policing the article to take the focus away from harassment of women online, which is pretty much what happens any time an article like this comes out.

fuck this, she couldnt handle a crap comment in a decent, mature way. Instead she threatened violent bodily harm to another person. she threatened to RAPE someone. That make HER the scumbag, whatever was said before is irrelevant. She deserves to be banned like anyone else who would do the same.
she should have some respect for victims of rape and not throw it around like its nothing. She could have taken higher ground, but instead she revealed what a low piece of shit she is.

There’s pretty much nothing that any authority – from twitter people, to small claims courts, to Obama, to the Illuminati – can do to make the words “I’m going to rape you” mean anything other than what they mean. At the very best it was a rape JOKE, which is equally reprehensible, possibly even more so given her gender and her subscription to feminism. So all appeals claiming Julia was in the right are pointless.

I’m getting weird Autistic vibes from this too. Maybe an analogy will help.

J.S. Bach composed his fugal music with many clever and noble things in mind, however none of them can do much to change the fact that it sounds like a borderline-amusical hodgepodge that makes Vaporwave sound human. Incidentally, this is probably the reason Bach was ignored during his lifetime. Regardless of intent or context, a cacophonous mass of notes is a cacophonous mass of notes – a rape threat is a rape threat. Nothing more to it.

I don’t know if you guys realize, but this is the worse possible approach if you want her account restored. Yes, it is the best approach if you want to do it “feministically” or make a case for the broader spectrum of online abuse or whatever. But not if you want to get your account back. It’s more than a little ironic, no? Continue spamming twitter with the same attitude, turning yourself from a footnote into a full-blown undesirable person and basically making sure you stay banned for good BUT contributing to the fight against…I don’t know, neckbeards and dudebros? OR eating some humble pie, apologizing to twitter, and possibly getting unbanned.

If there IS a possibility of getting her account restored, it would have to start with a full admission of guilt from Julia with no mention of context, intent, or what the other party said.

By the way, Sean, I think you’re dangerously close to being banned for spam.

Same as it ever was. Bullies get a free pass to make people’s lies hell, but if a target stands up to them, the system smacks them down, hard. Who knew adult life was exactly like junior high?

I can understand why Julia snapped back, given what women in comics have had to put up with for so long. In case you missed it, here’s a Comics Alliance article that spells it out. Hard to believe this crap is still going on. I blame the superhero fanboy culture that still treats women as some alien species.

And, “pete,” your childish, profane comment is utterly repulsive. How old are you, 13? That’s how you’re acting.

http://comicsalliance.com/comics-industry-harassment/?trackback=fbshare_flat_4

‘Stupid Tales of Wolverine’ by J.G. is one of my most prized possessions. Someone’s gotta rerelease that shit.