(Feeling entitled to women's energy has, of course, been a longstanding problem for cis men.) One never knows how far a man will go to make a woman's life hell.īut what makes a reply guy reply in the first place? It's been suggested - including in a piece from Raw Story - that the reply guy phenomenon is an instance of benevolent sexism.Īs with other types of benevolent sexism, like catcalling disguised as "compliments" and paternalistic pseudo-concern, reply guy behavior can quickly grow frightening if the man doesn't feel his target is giving him the attention he deserves. Why is everyone on Twitter talking about towels? Eventually, he also found me on Instagram and Facebook, where he continued to engage with the vast majority of my posts. I once had a reply guy whose comments started off innocuous, then steadily became more frequent - and more suggestive - when I stopped liking his replies. Still, reply guy behavior can escalate quickly - which is why a lot of women choose not to block the offenders. None of her reply guys are "consistent harassers," she said. She's also chosen to mute instead of block. "It's always regarding the content of tweets, contextual," she said. Unlike Radulovic's reply guy, her reply guys respond to each tweet individually. "Muting will keep 'em quiet, but they'll never know."Īnother user, who asked to remain anonymous, said she's noticed several reply guys in her mentions. "I fear men's retaliation and muting will keep 'em quiet, but they'll never know." (Users aren't notified that they've been muted.) "I have that internalized female niceness where I can't make anyone mad," she said. Is 'don't feed the trolls' actually good advice? It's complicated. "I had this fella who followed me because I had Cookie Monster in my profile pic and he just kept replying to everything I posted trying to get me to talk about Muppets," she explained over Twitter DM. Petrana Radulovic, a reporter at Polygon, had a reply guy experience that was truly, deeply weird. Reply guys aren't just lurking on STEM grounds, either. The Gaslighter, for example, is devoted to minimizing women's experiences, and the Cookie Manster is basically the poster child for #NotAllMen.Īll nine have one thing in common, though, as pointed out: "Their goal is to control the conversation." The account divides reply guys into nine subcategories, each based on a reply guy behavior the two observed in the wild.
![latin porn gay twitter latin porn gay twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdNXMRCXIAADI9i.jpg)
"It's annoying because Reply Guys always think they've made some brilliant contribution, but it's the same nonsense any woman, person of color, or LGBTQ person has experienced hundreds of times," she said. "We came up with the idea of the 9 Reply Guys after noticing that the kinds of tweets and comments make to women on Twitter (and in real life) follow really predictable patterns," explained via Twitter DM.Īnthony Hopkins, cannibalism icon, is the happiest man on Twitter In a 2018 piece for McSweeney's, for instance, Emlyn Crenshaw wrote an extremely funny Reply Guy Constitution, which focuses above all else on men's commitment to "weigh in on women's thoughts at every possible opportunity."Īnd two scientists, (who asked to be referred to by her Twitter handle only) and Scott Barolo, created the Twitter account based on the experiences of women in STEM. But there's still some literature on the subject. The sheer volume of responses is a reliable indicator.
![latin porn gay twitter latin porn gay twitter](https://media.them.us/photos/5c3919bd6b6cca0013e47fac/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/il_570xN.984196694_9wii.jpg)
It's usually pretty easy to ID a reply guy.
![latin porn gay twitter latin porn gay twitter](https://http2.mlstatic.com/porno-gay-mexicana-chacales-cholos-machos-ex-reclusos-D_NQ_NP_814401-MLM20312695625_062015-O.jpg)
They also tend to reply to only women the most prolific reply guys fill the role for dozens of women trying to tweet in peace. Their responses are overly familiar, as if they know the person they're targeting, though they usually don't. In general, reply guys tend to have few followers. These men are colloquially known as "reply guys." While no reply guy is the same - each reply guy is annoying in his own way - there are a few common qualities to watch out for. A lot of people, mostly women, have noticed that one or two men always, no matter what, reply to their tweets. On Twitter, a place where a lot of bad things happen, there's a mostly harmless but decidedly annoying phenomenon.
Latin porn gay twitter series#
This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet.