the feminist librarian reads

Whether or not you agree with his argument, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed tells a different, second story, one laced with fear and anxiety about what might result from what he describes as “the silenced … getting a voice” and justice becoming “democratized” through social media. (He seems to mostly mean Twitter, but one of his subjects was humiliated on Facebook, so he expands his reach.) At times, Ronson verges on hysterical, as when he writes that during the summer and fall of 2013, “it became routine. Everyday people, some with young children, were getting annihilated for tweeting some badly worded joke to their hundred or so followers.” The everyday people he has in mind are all white and mostly men (gender difference isn’t a subject for Ronson), and some of them aren’t even everyday people, but public figures.