> I am a 15-year-old girl.

[colman@mastodon.ie]

@neil we've got to find a way to make society in general consider women as people rather than as objects.

HarriettMB (@HarriettMB@toot.wales)

An important read for everyone; this misogynistic behaviour is ‘normalised’ by actions of authorities, such as the IOC testing womens hormones [not ‘female’ enough], of online persona such as Andrew Tate, or the repellent comments from POTUS […. Whether the women like it or not], and a million tiny actions every single day. #Misogyny I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse

Tŵt Cymru | Toot Wales (toot.wales)

[ahnlak@kavlak.uk]

@etchedpixels @neil while I agree fully with the sentiment, I've shied away from pub comparisons due to the awkward fact that unaccompanied minors are banned from them.

It's probably closer to banning children from the park because there might be a bad man lurking in the bushes...

[etchedpixels@mastodon.social]

@woe2you @neil But that kind of attack and belittling is focused almost entirely on women in positions of power, as is body shaming and poking fun at their outfits.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@etchedpixels @woe2you

Body shaming is very much common place, directed towards many women, not just something directed to women in positions of power!

[etchedpixels@mastodon.social]

@ahnlak @neil Looking at current social media behaviour in English language at least I fear it's more right now like banning unattended children from the park because the park is on Epstein's Island.

The park needs fixing.

Very good point on the pub analogy

[ahnlak@kavlak.uk]

@etchedpixels @neil for sure, it's that really dodgy park with all the broken bottles and needles - I'm not saying the park isn't a problem, just that banning minors rather misses the problem.

[agt@pnw.zone]

@neil

Social media is dangerous so ban children rather than blame the companies (and their founders) for dangerous products. Same tactic as plastic is dangerous so shame individuals into recycling rather than blame the plastic makers. Billionaires are good at making "consumers" responsible for their bad products.

[jima@mspsocial.net]

@neil Yeah, only adult women should be subjected to the vile misogyny. 🧐🥴

(It's a problem, no argument; I fail to see how isolating minors from communities they can find online is necessarily the answer, though.)

[anygould@kind.social]

@neil Name and shame, I say - the problem isn't that they're young (I remember old warehouse guys throwing hissies about losing their girlie pics in the locker room decades ago). It's that they suffer no consequences.

[fartnuggets@jorts.horse]

@neil as long as there are people making misogyny profitable, this is only going to get worse. The platforms are profiting and face no real consequences for all their misdeeds, so we end up with this shitty reality. The social media ban was never about trying to fix any of the causes of the damage. It's all total bullshit and it makes me rage. They're doubling down on exploiting our kids and charging us extra for it.