#sheratesdogs

[ghstslut]

gossiping, scheming

[no-chill-at-all]

[800milesisadrive]

Men, are we ok?

This entire account is pure gold, btw.

SheRatesDogs

[masculinepeacock]

one of the more concerning things i see in the SheRatesDogs replies on Twitter/instagram comments is whenever a man isn’t as horrible as he COULD be, people are like “oh this ones okay”, no he really isn’t!! he is still being a piece of shit!! just because he was upfront about being toxic doesn’t make the fact that he is toxic to his partners LESS concerning

[saltychildren]

[one-trickpony]

A little thing I made for @sheratesdogs

[shannonmrry708]

SheRatesDogs on Twitter

“Posted her friend’s selfies on her story and this dude rly didn’t like it I guess...?”

- “The critical reflex is to dismiss selfies as yet another indication of a pervasive culture of narcissism. I disagree. The narcissism critique approaches the selfie as if it were analyzing a single photograph. It views the person in that photograph as the photograph’s subject. Selfies, though, should be understood as a common form, a form that, insofar as it is inseparable from the practice of sharing selfies, has a collective subject. The subject is the many participating in the common practice, the many imitating each other. The figure in the photo is incidental.” 

- “When we upload selfies, we are always vaguely aware that someone, when it is least opportune, may take an image out of its context and use it to our disadvantage. But we make them anyway as part of a larger social practice that says a selfie isn’t really of me; it’s not about me as the subject of a photograph. It’s my imitation of others and our imitation of each other.”

(Jodie Dean. “Images without Viewers: Selfie Communism”, 2016)

“This notion takes on great significance in social media culture, when confronted with the sheer volume of self-representations by women in their teens to mid-20s. Viewed individually, they appear rather banal, commonplace, and benign. Taken en masse, it feels like a revolutionary political movement – like a radical colonization of the visual realm and an aggressive reclaiming of the female body. Even if there is no overt political intent, they are indeed contending with the manner in which capitalism is enacted upon their lives.” 

(Derek Conrad Murray. “Notes to self: the visual culture of selfies in the age of social media”, 2015)

[shannonmrry708]

SheRatesDogs on Twitter

“Sam I know this isn’t what you wanted but I need you to know I respect what you’re saying”

Do counterveillance tactics function to police and modify harmful behaviour online? In the wake of @SheRatesDogs viral success, men recognize (with surprise) the frequency with which online abuse of women occurs, and attempt to pinpoint (and avoid) their own complicity in this toxic culture. But who does this help? Can a site like SheRatesDogs tackle issues of racism, transphobia, etc.,or is the productivity of the site limited to promoting the causes of primarily white women? For whom is this “a game”, and for whom does it become a life or death matter?