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Making people participate in their own censorship in this way and punishing them with the threat of being silenced even if in compliance with the rules should they not participate, is, IMHO, abuse of their userbase.

Source: I’ve worked for three different top-five social networks, and at all of them this type of work would have been done by making the userbase do it as much as possible.

Please signal boost. I don’t care if you reblog or repost, just get the word out so that people know what they’re doing as they interect with this thing.

Amrita Sher-gil is considered one of the most important womenpainters of 20th Century India. Known for her paintings of women, as well asher many affairs with both men and women, she is sometimes known as ‘India’sFrida Kahlo.’

 Born to a Punjabi Sikh aristocrat and a Hungarian Jewishopera singer, Sher-gil learned to paint at age eight. She studied in Florenceand Paris, and was influenced by European painters of the time, like Cezanneand Gauguin.

After returning to India in 1936, she was inspired by the Bengal School of Art, and toured South India, where she found her calling- to paint the lives of Indian people, particularly villagers and women.

“If men don’t know how to interact with roughly half the human population in a professional setting, they are - simply put - unqualified for the jobs they hold.   They don’t deserve a pass, our sympathies, or special treatment for their incompetence.”

- Fannie Wolfe, responding to Bloomberg headline, “Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost”

CURRENT MOOD: “Excuse me, which way to the “no girls allowed” boardroom?”