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Owner59 -> The new networked feminism: Limbaugh’s spectacular social media defeat (3/7/2012 8:23:12 AM)
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I guess rush and co. have unwittingly spawned a new and powerful army of "feminazis"......
Enjoy....
"When he used the word “slut” to describe Sandra Fluke – linking the need for contraceptives to a kind of rampant (and distasteful) sexual desire in women that society shouldn’t pay for – Limbaugh casually played the flip side of the classic “she asked for it” defense of sexual assault. The Republican Party’s most potent media figure may well have reckoned that talk radio’s legendary reach and loyal conservative audience would easily sustain a few harmless raindrops of outrage on the roof.
But he was (perhaps fatally) wrong.
There was a powerful, decentralized social venture lurking on the digital network – totally empowered and working with a toolset as potent as Clear Channel’s microphones.
“I think the feminists were always out there, but often isolated from one another or overwhelmed by the amount of work to be done and lack of time in a day,” says feminist writer Kate Harding. “Social media allows us to work together quickly and publicly for something like a boycott or twitter campaign–(mostly) without the distractions of in-group politics or disagreement on any number of other issues–and that creates an energy that makes it feel so much more like a unified movement, even when people are still quite loosely connected.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2012/03/05/the-new-networked-feminism-limbaughs-spectacular-social-media-defeat/2/
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