It’s the 6th anniversary of the #9ReplyGuys@shrewshrew.bsky.social & me, categorizing misogynistic replies to reports of sexual harassment in STEM🧪. These guys are still around, and these creepy rhetorical tactics are used for lots of things, so we recreated the thread over here.

SBsbarolo.bsky.socialSep 3, 2023 7:52pm

Wow, it's the 5th anniversary of the #9ReplyGuys thread on Twitter, posted by me & @shrewshrew.bsky.social. #WomenInSTEM who post about harassment & sexual misconduct get a lot of misogynistic replies. We (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

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Required reading :-)

Something that we wanted #9ReplyGuys to do on twitter that never quite clicked there, but really fits with Bluesky, is to give people permission to stop an unhealthy conversation. If you identify a bad faith or unhelpful reply because of these tropes, mute or block them forever with my blessing

Have you ever written this as an article? I would love to use this as a reading for the next time i teach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.