Yes All Women Twitter campaign has been taking the social networking site Twitter by storm after a 22-year-old ran amok with a shooting spree. According to Sky News, the man who spurred the Yes All Women Twitter campaign vented his fury on Twitter before he went on a rampage against all the women who he believes to have spurned him in Santa Barbara, California.
Now, Twitter users have a platform for sharing their thoughts on misogyny trough the Yes All Women Twitter campaign. This was reportedly in response to the killing spree in California by a gunman who killed all the women who had allegedly refused him. According to the Washington Post, the Yes All Women hashtag began trending on Twitter right after the killing rampage on Friday, May 23. The rampage reportedly left seven people dead, including the 22-year-old killer identified as Elliot Rodger.
According to reports, Rodger's troubling manifesto and YouTube videos shows him releasing fury at all women who he believes have rejected him. He reportedly posted a video online promising to slaughter "spoilt, stuck-up blonde" a day before the attack.
He vowed to slaughter the magazine-beautiful blondes who didn't want to have sex with him as well as post rants in online forums where other men even consented to his abhorrence. This angered women all over the world and spurred the Yes All Women Twitter campaign. Hundreds of thousands of responses reportedly flooed Twitter while using the hashtag #YesAllWomen.
Because of his videos, the Yes All Women Twitter campaign hashtag became trending. The powerful effect on Twitter reads stories of violence against women and sexism, and shared under the hashtag YesAllWomen.
One mother tweeted "I've spent 19 yrs teaching my daughter how not to be raped. How long have you spent teaching your son not to rape? #YesAllWomen"
Another tweeted, "Because I wasn't 'asking for it' when he hit me, and I shouldn't have to defend myself a decade later. #YesAllWomen"
One woman said, "#YesAllWomen b/c we are called fat, ugly, and slutty/threatened w/rape all the time online, & we are told to 'just ignore the trolls.' "
The New Yorker says that while some women told of their unsafe predicaments with on the Yes All Women Twitter campaign, others cried for sexism in the workplace. Many women have commented against a culture which reportedly judges women for how they dress rather than what they think or say.
One user named @davisnevis said, "#yesallwomen because I can't walk down the street without being harassed (stared at, cat called) every day, all day."
Another under @emilyPuccio wrote, "#YesAllWomen Because many think it's more important to teach their daughters safety than it is to teach their sons respect."
"#yesallwomen because we are taught from a very young age that to be truly happy we need a husband," writes an @EmmaPerkinton.
@CheltzzzMB said, "My body, my clothes, nor my dance moves grant any sort of permission. Unless I tell you 'Yes,' you must assume 'No.' #YesAllWomen."
Though it may be said that what Rodger did was unforgivable, he has been a necessary instrument in exposing the sick world of the Men's Rights Activist movement, self-described "alphas". According to the Washington Post, this group is composed of men who fume about any and all the times they don't call the shots with women, specifically the airbrushed, inflated and photo-shopped creatures they assume are there for them and mostly everything is about sex.
Rodger, who has been vital to exposing the sick world of some men, and who has been instrumental in the Yes All Women Twitter campaign, is the son of a film director who drove a BMW and reportedly never had to work a summer job. Reports say that his racist and misogynistic rants became so bad that they were flagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Yes All Women Twitter campaign is powerful, and essential in society today. The Washington Post hit the spot as it said: the Yes All Women Twitter campaign "tells the stories we keep to ourselves, and it takes back a Twitterverse that is so often used as a space to intimidate, harass and threaten women."
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