This is What Happens When a Woman Supports Bernie Sanders Online

[enigmatic]

"Emily Ratajkowski is an actress and model best known for appearing in Gone Girl and the Blurred Lines music video. She’s supporting Senator Bernie Sanders in the democratic primary this election. Emily introduced Sanders at a rally on Monday, and you can watch her speech here.

Emily posted about this to her various social media accounts, and while most of her fans were excited to see her support of Bernie, a number of people weren’t. This is what happens when you support Bernie Sanders online while female.
First, people tell you to shut up and look pretty."

[link:https://medium.com/@lleeiii/this-is-what-happens-when-a-woman-supports-bernie-sanders-online-42b642ba673f#.s9n57flk3|

[cali]

1. Undoubtedly Hill Sisses.

[virtualobserver]

11. to alerter--sisses is the counterpart to bro's.....Bernie bro's, Hill Sisses.....get it?

On Thu Feb 11, 2016, 03:53 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Undoubtedly Hill Sisses.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1203264

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Not only should comments like this embarrasses anyone over the age of 10,but "sissies" is a homophobic smear.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Feb 11, 2016, 03:56 PM, and the Jury voted 3-4 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Absolutely not ok!
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
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Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Consider the source.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: sisses is the counterpart to bro's.....Bernie bro's, Hill Sisses.....get it?

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[kath]

13. Once again, reading comprehension is the downfall of some here.

[PatrynXX]

38. get alot of that

clearly my ADD I'm guilty too but I see I'm not alone obviously I woulda figured that out. I need to take a political break for the day. partially why I wanted to get out of politics but Bernie decided I had some omph left , Hillary pretty much looks the worse for the wear today. throwing out even the kitchen sink that hit the wall yeah but wrong area you moved the wall at the bottom the wall is gonna fall back on top of her

[panader0]

22. Number 5: "Consider the source."

Hahaha...
Stacked deck much?

[virtualobserver]

24. one more Hill sis or bro, and that would have been an unjustified hide

[m-lekktor]

25. LOL. that made me laugh that they thought Cali said sissies. nt

[beam me up scottie]

27. I don't think that was a mistake, cali has been alert stalked for months.

And alerters lie about posts to get hides all the time.

[m-lekktor]

29. that's messed up. I just know Cali would never use a slur like that.

"consider the source" was just a nasty attack not based in reality.

[beam me up scottie]

30. You're right, of course she wouldn't but the alerter was hoping for gullible jurors.

I've seen it happen to others who had their posts hidden.

[m-lekktor]

31. aaah. sleazy. nt

[PatrynXX]

39. they change slang on me so much

that I still think its a wimp term , been called sissie quite often and some Sissie's wear it with pride.

[m-lekktor]

40. except in this instance she meant sis's , short for sisters! bernie bros, Hillary sis's

[PonyUp]

34. To the alerter: Reading is fundamental. n/t

[PaulaFarrell]

12. actually no

Bunch of misogynist jerks

[Raine1967]

21. or perhaps a bunch of misogynist jerks on the internet.

I know you are aware that this kind of thing exists.


Take a look at what they did to Megan Kelly.

[rbrnmw]

2. That is just wrong and I support Hillary

[beam me up scottie]

3. Those tweets are vile, but the writer makes a good point, worth a read:

As Rachel Weaver put it in Of Bernie Bros and Famous Blue Dresses:

“Find any group that includes men who use the internet, and you will find men who are behaving horridly. The idea that this would be something unique to men drawn to support Bernie Sanders, a candidate with an impeccable record on women’s issues, is of course absurd, but the media and Hillary supporters have latched onto this convenient, if unsupported, narrative and treated it as gospel.”

Emily Ratajkowski found the internet to be no kinder to a woman who supports Bernie Sanders than it is to a woman who supports Hillary Clinton. Online harassment is a serious issue, and it would be great if both campaigns addressed it in a productive way. All the campaigns in this election are heavy users of social media and if they presented a unified platform to address online harassment it could possibly make social media companies to take the issue more seriously.

However, by framing the discussion in a way meant to benefit Hillary Clinton alone, the pundits have accomplished little, save insulting Sanders supporters and deluding Bill Clinton into thinking sexism is an issue he can lecture about.

With Clinton surrogates Madeline Albright and Gloria Steinem joining in with the online mob to hurl sexist insults at Sander’s female supporters coupled with the offensive spectacle of America’s most iconic practitioner of sexual harassment taking a stand on sexism, Hillary will likely need more than Bernie Bro thinkpieces to bridge the massive gap between her and Sanders among young women.

[arcane1]

7. Sad but true :(

[farleftlib]

16. Just from posting around here I know this part is true

Emily Ratajkowski found the internet to be no kinder to a woman who supports Bernie Sanders than it is to a woman who supports Hillary Clinton.

The Hill sisses can be very uncivil when it suits them, but they cling to the Berniebro meme.

[beam me up scottie]

17. We've had our feminist cred questioned from the moment we announced we supported Bernie.

There was an op last year that said a vote for Bernie is a vote for white male rule.

Somehow we're less than equal if we don't do what's expected of us.

[farleftlib]

19. Bernie = white male rule?

Jeez, that person either lives in some alternate universe or has an agenda. My guess would be the latter.

However, it was a woman who told me I'm going to hell for voting for Bernie. go figure.

[beam me up scottie]

23. Correct, it was the latter.

And it speaks to a pattern among her female supporters, Steinem and Albright just encouraged more of the same.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Oh look. Internet trolling by HillBros.

k/r

[Shandris]

5. People have been trained to use social media for purposes of silencing anything outside...

...the accepted norm. This is no surprise. It's not unbreakable, but it takes very strong people to work around it's quietly-hidden boundaries and barriers. The amount of censoring done online would stagger most people who don't actively follow it. It always amazes me how few Redditors to this day understand how brigading, shadowbanning, and all the other censorship techniques on there work.

I rather think this was actually the intent of social media all along, and the Arab Spring was its testing ground.

Now that everyone is seeing the group labelling structure being used for its actual, intended purpose, they aren't liking it anymore. It's almost kind of amusing in a sad, sick way, having been on the 'out' side of the whole thing for so long, but at the same time it's not amusing at all because it's real pain that real people feel when this happens.

However, being fair to our Hillary campaign friends, it is also possible that this is being done by third party paid trolls. There are thousands of companies, the world over, who pay people to do those sorts of things. Some of them are even run by former CIA operatives.

[Kurovski]

6. Like, every time, huh?

Insulting headline, but point taken. There are wretched guys on the internet.

[jeff47]

8. Clickable link

https://medium.com/%40lleeiii/this-is-what-happens-when-a-woman-supports-bernie-sanders-online-42b642ba673f#.s9n57flk3

DU doesn't like @ in links. Change the @ to %40 and DU is happy.

[Cheese Sandwich]

9. They are following the lead of Clinton's top surrogates, like Madeleine Albright

Starkly different than how the Sanders campaign has behaved.

[Luminous Animal]

10. Why doesn't Clinton dooooooo something about this!

[bvf]

26. +1. And who said some Clinton supporters

were lacking in enthusiasm? Way to narrow the gap, anyway.

[cyberswede]

14. Stuff like that happens to women online no matter what they do. nt

[Odin2005]

15. But, but, I thought it was only "BernieBros" who do such things!

[PaulaFarrell]

18. i think most of the people on this thread are missing the point

The people bashing her were a bunch of misogynistic jerks who didn't think a woman they liked to jerk off to should open her mouth and have an opinion. Some were republicans but no Hillary supporters. Basically just saying there are an astounding amount of assholes on the net.

[Luminous Animal]

20. Actually, I went to her Twitter feed and a fair

amount ARE Hillary supporters.

[PaulaFarrell]

48. would those be the ones telling her to shut up and show her tits?

[beam me up scottie]

28. I think you're missing the point.

Bernie's supporters have been blamed for this kind of behaviour for months, exclusively.

The tweets from Hillary supporters prove it's not limited to one group.

[PaulaFarrell]

50. i didnt read every comment

Couldn't stomach it. But all the ones I read were along the lines of shut up and show us your tits, how dare you have an opinion. She would have got the exact same comments from the exact same people if she'd supported Hilary.

BTW I have never bought into the ridiculous Bernie bro meme either.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. Wrong and some of that crap has happened here on the old DU

or off site, done by well known HRC supporters from here.

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. Yup, and we even see it here on this site

[mhatrw]

33. BREAKING NEWS: INTERNET TROLLS CAN BE MEAN!!!!

Funny how this is only a story when it can be used to smear Sanders.

[jfern]

35. I'm waiting for a certain former President to condemn each troll

Crickets

[Vattel]

37. Wow, what a surprise that Hillary supporters can be mean on social media.

I thought only Bernie supporters can be mean on social media.

[Bubzer]

41. *SMH*

There's so much I want to say... so much. This behavior is repulsive. I'll leave it at that.

[mythology]

42. This unfortunately happens to a lot of women

I don't see that you can say it's related to her supporting Sanders. Online trolls like attacking women. It happens to women in all sorts of professions.

One of those vile responses said anything about Clinton. The rest were unfortunately run of the mill assholes.

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170

[Binkie The Clown]

43. There is a powerful technique for preventing social media from silencing you.

Don't use social media. It's always worked for me.

What do people say about me on Facebook? I don't know. I don't care. I don't go to Facebook.

See. That's easy.

[Bohemianwriter]

44. Note: sarcastic undertones

shut up and look pretty
Vote for our Hillary


Because she will really take that foamy hand, wag her finger at the bankers and say "cut it out!"

[Bohemianwriter]

45. These hateful remarks on her page would be such fun and easy to take down and trash...

[ecstatic]

46. The nasty comments were from Republican men, many of them the same Trump

supporters that Sanders is courting.

You can't pin this on Hillary fans. Nice try though. As has been pointed out repeatedly, Hillary supporters are older and actually democrats. BernieBros consist of many young repubs and libertarians who aren't particularly interested in identity politics or political correctness.

[dana_b]

47. a bunch of ugly/sexist remarks

"I'm a dumb c**t who has never picked up a book on economics - vote with me!"

Really?!?! So progressive and feminist of them. Disgusting.

[frylock]

49. Damn you, Bernie Bros!!1

[Live and Learn]

51. Disgusting comments made by pathetic people. nt