@vkc @alex02 yiiiiiiikes

@vkc
I hear you

@eq

@vkc ugh. I saw your earlier post and I'm so sorry 🫂

A *lot* of (mostly) guys need to learn the difference between appropriate, consensual flirting, and sexual harassment.

@bob I always report and block. My problem is I need the collective *you* to report and block. And more.

@vkc @effariwhy the social media equivalent of some dickhead shouting CHEER UP LOVE from a passing car it's so fucking sad it's actually comical.

@vkc@linuxmom.net I hope you're fine. Harassers are such awful people. I hope they don't do that to you ever again, and that admins in our instances do their best to block them

@alex02 @vkc Just chiming into say im blocking you too.

@bob

I think the "I" in that reply needs to be "you" and "me" for that to work.
If it is just the woman doing the moderation, then those guys just keep doing it, and it becomes "women's work".

@vkc

@vkc sadly this is an issue that'll only start to get better when guys call other guys out on this behavior—every time they see it.

@alice @vkc I think you are too generous in assuming the *lot* can learn anything at this stage, it's like teaching a hammer 'there are other things than nails you know'.

@semitones thanks for bringing that up 🩷 seems like a good time to boost that post again.

@vkc

@alice @vkc

Absolutely. We, as men, *must* step up. Not only with standing against sexual harassment; but also the "edgy" comments

Its easy to spout as a man you'd stand against brutality. But yet we're often quiet when women, POC, are ignored, belittled, etc.

Creating a world where we all are safe from harm is stopping **all** forms of harassment, staring, belittling, catcalling. At. All. Times.

Men, we need to do better and hold each other accountable. For everyone, including ourselves

@byrnensorg I gotta believe we can do better than this, because the alternative is pretty fucking sad.

@vkc

@vkc @eq that had to be said ️

@mloxton @vkc

When/if i see it on Beamship, i become a pitbull...

@alice @vkc

And that also means at places and times where it is just men around.

Especially then.

Silence then is implied endorsement later.

@alice @vkc I have noticed today in multiple threads that there's a lot of anger out there and dare I say it, twittification, it's as if mastodon is morphing before our very eyes.

@vkc sorry you have to deal with that shit. Dudes need to be better. You shouldn't have to put up with the extra BS just because you're a woman on the internet.

If I see I will do my best to call it out. Too much happens in places I can't see which I think is one of the few flaws Masto has. Not sure how to fix that tho. But if I can help I will.

@Jirikiha @vkc Men know what men are like.

@Jirikiha @alice @vkc See also: being white on the internet