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A Bunch of Men on Twitter Came Unglued at the Mere Mention of a Female Playing ‘The Joker’

Male comic book nerds continue to flip out about gender-flipped heroes (and villains), even though Dr. Who, the Ocean’s cast, and Ghostbusters have all been rebooted with women at the center (and Wonder Woman was, arguably, one of the best superhero movies to come out in recent memory).

Case in point: writer Geraldine DeRuite jokingly suggested reasons why the Joker should be re-cast in the new Batman to be a woman.

Her reasons were pretty hilariously on point, too…unless you’re a man with fragile feelings and stuff.

Because guys. They cannot handle it.

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At some point @everywhereist started playing misogynist Twitter Bingo and became the hero we all deserve.

Moral? Be careful what funny and insightful thoughts you decide to put out there on Twitter.

The misogynists are waiting….

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Sexist Guy Posts His “12 Rules for Beautiful Women,” Gets Destroyed by the Internet

What is it with sexist jerks trying to tell other people how to live? It’s absolutely ridiculous. The only solace I have is that the internet tends to put them back in their place pretty quick.

Take Alexander J.A. Cortes, for example. The self-proclaimed “trainer”, “writer”, and speaker recently took to Twitter and laid out his 12 rules for “How to be a Beautiful Woman.”

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Cortes has a history of tweeting out misogynistic views so this was really nothing new, but it caused a lot of people to respond nonetheless.

Here’s the tweet heard ’round the world that set off such a firestorm.

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Cortes continued…

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“Only a man can tell a woman how act.” Wow. And then he ended on this note.

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As you can probably imagine, women were pretty livid.

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Cortes obviously is a Grade A-level troll and he replied to his haters with another Tweetstorm.

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This “roadmap” he mentions was a retweet from this guy.

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Unless you’re blind, you can see that this guy is quite the catch. And the ladies let it loose once again.

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And, finally…

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THE END.

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Woman Gets Added to a Sexist Group Chat About Her, Puts It on Facebook

Eleanor Henry was a law student at Melbourne University who had something both mortifying and appalling happen to her not long ago.

Her peers were apparently sexualizing and objectifying her in a group chat and… somebody unwittingly added her to it.

Needless to say, she was quickly removed from the chat, but not before she saw everything they had said and took a lot of screenshots. And then she shared (almost) all of it to Facebook.

Get ready for a shockingly sexist ride!

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Her Facebook post reads:

“Let’s all wave hello to my fellow peers at Melbourne University. This is why I’ll die a feminist. It’s 2016.. Let’s get back to that conversation on equality.

Oh and for those asking, they accidentally added me to their chat group without realizing I could read everything prior.”

But here’s the thing… Henry was incredibly nice. Because, as she told the Daily Mail Australia, she wouldn’t “publicly name and shame the men.”

Her restraint is even more impressive considering what they wrote:

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All that, and they also said, “Bring her to Thailand. We need a bike.”

“Aside from this contact, I have never really engaged with them on a social level,” Eleanor told the Daily Mail. In fact, several of the people in the chat were guys she had never even met before.

Reading the messages made Eleanor feel physically ill, and her sister suggested that she expose this particular “kind of rape culture” by posting the messages to Facebook. (With all the profile pics and names blurred out, of course.)

Apparently, after Henry posted the messages, one of the guys involved begged her to take them down:

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Yeah, his case wasn’t terribly convincing, was it? No worry about the ethical implications involved in joking about gang-banging a female friend. Just worried about being caught.

Luckily for him, he and his friends remain anonymous.

On her decision not to name the boys involved, Eleanor explained, “It’s not particularly relevant in achieving the outcome I wish to pursue on a larger scale, which ultimately is to bring awareness about the issue and have people understand that it should not be merely written off as ‘boys being boys.’”

Just more proof that “locker room talk” often has nothing to do with the locker room.

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Man on Twitter Claims “Unnatural” Hair Colors Are a Red Flag, Gets Instantly Roasted

So, Twitter is a place where anyone can express their opinions about anything. And they do. All the time.

One user, Alexander A.J Cores, had some opinions about women’s hair colors.

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It was a position he felt pretty strongly about.

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He even gave some scientific evidence.

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I mean, think of the poor, impressionable young men who might be led astray by multi-colored hair.

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Oh, Alex, who hurt you?

Obviously, I’m not putting up with this nonsense. Thankfully, neither was Twitter.

Here are a few of the best responses:

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This is a little petty, but…

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And this t-shirt says it all:

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Of course, if you wander through Cortes’ timeline, you’ll also find this:

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Not only are Cortes’ comments around hair color close-minded, but his simple dismissal of any women seeing a therapist or taking prescriptions to treat her mental health are problematic too.

Twitter had fun with this guy, but in all seriousness, you do you. Your hair color, your self-care, your therapy, your medication regimen. Whatever gets you through the day and keeps you awesome.

And if you’re feeling down, remember that at least you’re not this guy.

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