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How do I know if I’m on a block list ?

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wrappedupinmyselflikeaspool · 08/10/2017 17:50

So, I’ve just found out I’m blocked on Twitter by Dr Brooke Magnati/Belle De Jour despite never having any interaction with her to my knowledge. I hardly ever tweet about gender critical things on this account, my professional one. I assume she blocked me as I’m critical of what currently passes for progressive thinking on sex work, but again, I hardly ever tweet anything about this, or only mildly. I do follow some gender critical and s VAW and prostitution survivors but also some lib fems, well I used to. I cant Remember names to check other people I was following but for example I can still look at Juno Dawson (but I was never following Juno in the first place)

I’m confused. Why block someone who has never bothered you? I’ve only blocked a few people in my time, all people who were harassing me and being deliberately unpleasant. Milo and his followers for example. I also always block the many women selling sex who follow me because I assume they are either doing it to take the piss (considering the type of account it is) or to use my timeline to sell sex, which I’m not comfortable with. I talk a lot about male violence, murder, rape, CSE and sex offending, from a professional perspective and in an accessible, non aggressive way, because I want to engage people. How do I tell if I’m on a block list?

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LassWiTheDelicateAir · 11/10/2017 22:36

Slightly proud but a little baffled

You are in quite good company though. Even the dubious ones like Hopkins or Clarkson at least have the merit you could have a good going argument with them and they wouldn't try to shut you down.

Imherefornow · 11/10/2017 14:21

I am on there too! Slightly proud but a little baffled as I work hard at being respectful...apart from that time I told a TA to "jog the fuck on" Blush

Ereshkigal · 11/10/2017 08:55

Fucking funny though Grin

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 11/10/2017 08:54

True...

Ereshkigal · 11/10/2017 06:54

These people aren't the brightest.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 11/10/2017 05:55

Baggy - I am devastated.

Lass - Samira Ahmed makes sense, she's spoken out about toilets and she's hosting Julie Bindel's book launch. But Shon Faye????

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 11/10/2017 01:16

The Terf list has, perhaps not unsurprisingly, Julia Hartley Brewer, Jerermy Clarkson , David TC Davies MP , Miranda Yardley and Blaire White on it.

It also has Shon Faye.

And Samira Ahmed.

AssignedPerfectAtBirth · 10/10/2017 23:49

Why don't we have a pic of soon to be Dame Suzie?

DJBaggySmalls · 10/10/2017 23:27

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans Worse, now you will never be able to fork out $400 to heal your toxic whiteness.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/toxic-whiteness-healing-white-people-internalised-racism-woman-sandra-kim-new-york-a7595216.html

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 10/10/2017 22:55

I am blocked on Twitter by Everyday Feminism.

ShockSadShockSadShockSad

How will I find out the seven ways I'm oppressing vegan asexual people?

Or the twenty three ways to be a Good Ally to pansexual trans giraffes?

ohyesiknowwhatyoumean · 09/10/2017 17:05

Bugger. Not on any block lists. Clearly am insignificant Confused

FloraFox · 09/10/2017 15:49

A bunch of people were using a block bot a few years ago. Not sure if that's still a thing. Brooke Magnanti also blocked me and, oddly, Martin Linehan who I have never interacted with on twitter.

WhereYouLeftIt · 09/10/2017 14:59

I am listed on TERFblocker!

And thanks for the lists info DJBaggySmalls - turn out that I am a member of a list called Random Horrible People ( again). Interestingly, the person who created this list hasn't blocked me. So I'm horrible, but not unreadable? Meh.

I have found myself to be blocked by people I've never interacted with. I am starting to block them back, as I find the notion that they can see me but I can't see them - well, a little creepy.

As for does it make a difference, it can sometimes when you're reading a conversation and you realise people are responding to posts invisible to you. But then I just log off and reload the page.

Anlaf · 09/10/2017 08:18

Imagine wanting to block Martina Navratilova!

Surely that's when you question your ideology

AssignedPerfectAtBirth · 08/10/2017 23:15

Martina Navratilova is on it.

Lesbian heroine.

AssignedPerfectAtBirth · 08/10/2017 23:08

I'm on it. So proud!

bambambini · 08/10/2017 21:19

I'm on a terf list snd blocked by Brooke. I feel kind of like a rebel without a clue.

HemlockIsSpartacus · 08/10/2017 20:43

Adventure? Advantage - obviously

HemlockIsSpartacus · 08/10/2017 20:43

The one big adventure to the blockbot and lists is that it's a great way to find more amazing feminists to follow - they make it nice and easy for us to network

DJBaggySmalls · 08/10/2017 20:35

Check the other people of the lists you are on and who posted it, dont just go by the name they give it. They arent all daft.

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wrappedupinmyselflikeaspool · 08/10/2017 20:11

Pencils, yes that’s exactly it. I follow a lot of different people and I like to know about different opinions, though I have to be honest there are a couple of people who go on and on about trans rights and sex workers rigths that I have muted but not blocked, because I still might want to see what they say about a particular thing. It is childish and it did irk me about Belle De Jour. very playground because I can just log in with a different account to see her tweets and I’m sure she knows that but just wants to make a point.

I’m not on the terf block list though so that can’t be it. I have checked my ‘lists’ and I’m on some pretty cool lists but nothing associated with swerf or terf.

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Xenophile · 08/10/2017 20:04

Robert Webb is on there too.

Maybe they don't like men who don't want to play by the rules of toxic masculinity.

PencilsInSpace · 08/10/2017 19:59

I'm on the TERF block list. I think Magnanti subscribes because I'm blocked by her too and have never interacted with her.

It does bother me because I want to read a variety of opinions. I'm not bothered if they don't want to read my tweets (they could achieve this by muting me) but there's something really tedious and childish about not allowing certain people to read their tweets (especially as you can just log out then read them anyway). You click on their page and get the 'you are blocked' message and it's like being back in the infants playground - 'I'm not talking to YOU ner ner ner ner ner'.

I think there's a bigger problem with blockbots like the TERF blocker too. I don't know how many people subscribe to it (a lot I'd imagine) but the list of those blocked is at 1350. I know the term is a bit overused but this is an echo chamber if anything is, and it seems to be a deliberately created one.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 08/10/2017 19:57

Janice Turner's on there too.

Anlaf · 08/10/2017 19:55

I'm not on the terf list yet.

That Tom Holland is though!

As is Katie Hopkins Hmm

Otherwise lots of marvellous people to follow if you're on twitter.