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Being a Woman on the Internet 101 - disclaimer, this is all very white and middle-class

A. 2016, the year an MRA ran for President Firstly, the current context is that the nerdy manbabies of the internet are listened to by the Trump Campaign; both Trump and said consultation is something no one imagined in their darkest nightmares before last year. https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.tn7iv0xok B. Male Oppression by Men, but Blamed on Women Still with the merciless Laurie Penny, here is an efficient entry into the world of the oppressed men of the internet: http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/on-nerd-entitlement-rebel-alliance-empire These are the places that these angry men begin their life, starting with the least-worst and escalating fast: 4chan - a message board that spawned Anonymous among other things https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/09/25/absolutely-everything-you-need-to-know-to-understand-4chan-the-internets-own-bogeyman/ reddit - a news aggregate site that can be used by the ma