[andrewzah]

"he best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names"

Real names don't mean anything. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram have people with real names and there's still disgusting behavior and rude interactions. Real names don't mean anything when you're reduced from a person to pixels on a screen, separated by hundreds or thousands of miles.

Reddit provides solace in that people can have more longform, nuanced discussions under an anonymous handle. So they don't have random people scouring through every post of theirs and pulling words out of context, like some witchhunters are doing with old emails.

"Whereas if you look at Reddit right now it is inundated with posts about the Depp/Heard case."

There wouldn't be much to discuss if the case were being handled fairly.

Instead, you've got one party on tape actually admitting abuse of their partner, and yet the victim is the one who loses their career and has magazines printing lies about them. I want you to envision the public reaction to the case if the genders were reversed here.

Any reasonable person can see that this situation is a clear example of unfair double standards, which is why it's being discussed so much. There are double standards for men and women, and I'd wager nearly every man alive right now knows about the double standards men face. That is why reddit, a male-dominated space, is highly interested in this case. This doesn't mean that women don't face double standards, of course, but reddit is not really able to discuss that well.

[naoqj]

> So they don't have random people scouring through every post of theirs and pulling words out of context, like some witchhunters are doing with old emails.

You think?