News: The Internet Hates Women

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newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/18/new-ad-campaign-uses-popular-search-terms-to-show-how-the-world-really-feels-about-women/?hpt=hp_bn18

Shocking to no one....

Though women’s status across the world has improved over the last few decades, we’re still largely second-class citizens in comparison to men: we make less money, have more difficulty accessing education and affordable healthcare and face much more violence than our male counterparts.

To emphasize the extent of global gender inequality, UN Women–an arm of the U.N. that focuses on women’s issues–has created a powerful advertising campaign that uses data collected from Google on the most popular search terms. As it turns out, the most popular Google queries are indicative of entrenched sexist attitudes that still persist today.


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[Bootista]

Disgusting.

[mcmahonfan85]

someone needs to show those skirts who's boss. they need to get rid of them fancy shoes, get themselves knocked up, and they need to get their butts back in the kitchen and make their men dinner!

[kidglov3s]

But but but how do you know they're not making it up?

[Cela]

Is anyone supposed to speak in church?

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Oct 19, 2013 15:14:08 GMT -5 Cela said:

Is anyone supposed to speak in church?

Babies?

[Sparkybob]

Alright then.

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Oct 19, 2013 15:14:08 GMT -5 Cela said:

Is anyone supposed to speak in church?

This legitimately made me laugh.

[kidglov3s]

Oct 19, 2013 15:14:08 GMT -5 Cela said:

Is anyone supposed to speak in church?

I read it as like, women shouldn't have roles in church in which they would speak (priests, pastors, etc).

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

What else is going to follow searches like "women should" "women cannot" etc

[Sephiroth]

What about the women who used to be men?

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Cannot be bishops? What an odd result

[Apricots And A Pear Tree]

The Internet hates everyone.

[hassanchop]

Does this mean the internet hates Rob Conway since:

[FinalGwen]

Hardly surprising. The fact that people would be that angry at women for no reason that they felt the need to type this stuff into Google enough times to get those results to come up... Creepy to say the least.

Also telling that Google can block autocomplete if you try and type in bisexual, but they let this kind of misogynistic garbage to stay up.

[Professor Chaos]

Maybe this can help me get some nookie and a sammich.

[Djm Doesn't Find You Funny]

It's the internet.

If you aren't a indepedent-but-libertarian-leaning non-religious Caucasian male, you are responsible for all ills in the world.

[Bo Rida]

Oct 19, 2013 16:38:11 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

Cannot be bishops? What an odd result

The Church of England are always having arguments/votes about women bishops and it gets a lot of news coverage so that's probably why it's a common search term. Obviously we can't discuss that too deeply.

Judging by the WWE threads on google's autofill I'm not sure they're the best measuring stick.

I'm also not sure that jokes about women's driving ability or if they should box should really be put on the same level as some of the other search terms.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

I get that they're trying to fight daily mysoginy but that's a very silly way to do it and all I'm getting from this ad is that the people who made it don't understand how Google works and there are still people who are shocked to find stupidity on the Internet. You can get similar results with pretty much anything because Google suggests results associated with similar searches, and this kind of stuff turns up a lot because bigoted and hateful idiots are good at one thing and one thing only: spreading their hatred on any medium they can find.

My point being that yes, there is still an unacceptable amount of misogyny in society, but trying to expose it through something as unreliable, versatile and non-indicative as Google search suggestions is just unproductive and if anything cheapens the message by making it frivolous and focusing on meaningless details rather than the core of the problem. Fight misogyny by exposing and condemning actual examples of misogyny, there are enough to go around, and leave this kind of counter-productive drivel to PeTA.

[Deleted]

So wait, there's ill will between the socially awkward goobers that are the backbone of the internet and the creatures that have no sold them their entire lives?

It's dumb that it honestly has THAT strong a presence, but at least it makes sense.