Fark To Add 'Misogyny' to List of Bannable Offenses


Rebecca Rose
JEZEBEL

Rebecca Rose
Filed to: MISOGYNY
SEXISM
ONLINE
CYBERBULLYING
HARASSMENT
COMPUTERS
TECHNOLOGY
FORUMS
COMMENTING
FARK
DREW CURTIS

Hell yes. A major online community is cracking down on instances of abusive language towards women and guess what? It's a really big fucking deal and you should feel good about it.

Today Fark announced it would add misogyny to its moderator guidelines. For those who aren't familiar with the site, Fark (founded in 1999) was one of the first major link aggregators. They also just became one of the first sites of its kind to outright ban misogyny in comments. Let that sink in for a moment. They're doing what many other sites have said is virtually impossible because of technological reasons or because of it would cause the absolute goddamn collapse of all civil liberties and free speech or something. But Fark.com founder and site admin Drew Curtis said fuck all that noise. He just laid some serious smack down in the battle to stop online harassment of women. In a message posted today on the site, Curtis got real about the Internet's problem with women:

...if the Internet was a dude, we'd all agree that dude has a serious problem with women.