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"In the wake of the Elliot Rodger shooting rampage, many women have turned to Twitter to share their experiences of harassment, fear and sexual assault under the hashtag #YesAllWomen.\nRodger's premeditated killing spree in Isla Vista, California, claimed the lives of seven people \u2014 including his own \u2014 with several more injured. He killed two women outside a sorority house, but according to Rodger himself he had planned to \"slaughter\" several more. Rodger's YouTube videos and 147-page \"manifesto\" create a portrait of a lonely misogynist who felt entitled to the attentions of women for no other reason than his own perceived intelligence and status.\nSee also: Santa Barbara Killer's Chilling Plot: A Timeline\n\"You girls have never been attracted to me,\" Rodger said in his final video. \"I don\u2019t know why you girls aren't attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it. It's an injustice... I don't know what you don't see in me. I'm the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman.\"\nAlthough Rodger is obviously an extreme case, his sense of male sexual entitlement resonated widely with women. The hashtag #YesAllWomen was born and became the label under which women shared their experiences with male entitlement. According to Hashtags.org, #YesAllWomen \u2014 which didn't exist before May 24 \u2014 has been attached to 1.2 million tweets, peaking at 61,500 tweets on May 25. (Topsy pegs the number of tweets at just over 1 million.)\n\nImage:  Hashtags.org\n\n\nThe tag originated on May 24 in a Twitter conversation involving writer Annie Cardi (@anniecardi) and another woman who has since changed her account to private to protect her identity, Cardi told Mashable. Cardi says she was the second person to use the tag (after her friend) and sees herself as a supporter of the phenomenon rather than an originator.\n\n@gildedspine @Ceilidhann Sounds like something that needs to get shared right now. #YesAllWomen\n\u2014 annie cardi (@anniecardi) May 24, 2014\n\nTwitter created an animated heatmap of the #YesAllWomen hashtag, showing how it progressed since its genesis on May 24 and spread throughout the weekend. The hashtag had worldwide reach, with most of the tweets concentrated in the U.S. and U.K., but saw activity in many other countries, including Pakistan, Indonesia and Qatar.\n\nThrough the hashtag, women have shared everything from stories of inappropriate workplace behavior to reports of rape.\n\n#yesallwomen because \"I have a boyfriend\" is more likely to get a guy to back off than \"no\", because they respect other men more than women\n\u2014 ZAmmi (@ZAmmi) May 26, 2014\n\n\nBecause in about 30 states, rapists whose victims choose to keep the baby can get parental rights, like weekend visitation. WTF #YesAllWomen\n\u2014 WonderWoman (@AlsoWonderWoman) May 26, 2014\n\n\n#yesallwomen because apparently the clothes I wear is a more valid form of consent than the words I say\n\u2014 Witch Bitch (@ghirah1m) May 26, 2014\n\n\na \"cool story babe, now make me a sandwich\" shirt doesn't break the school dress code. a girl's bra strap does. #yesallwomen\n\u2014 Yes All Women (@yesaIIwomen) May 26, 2014\n\n\n#YesAllWomen because I'm not being \"too sensitive\" when rape jokes make me uncomfortable\n\u2014 dj gemini (@incredibabe) May 26, 2014\n\n\nWhen a woman makes a video, most comments are about tearing apart her looks. Or if they'd \"do\" her. With a man, almost none. #YesAllWomen\n\u2014 Felicia Day (@feliciaday) May 26, 2014\n\n\n#YesAllWomen because even a taped confession admitting to raping me wasn't enough to put him in jail.\n\u2014 Jessi Smiles (@jessismiles__) May 26, 2014\n\n\nThe cops who asked me \"Well, what were you wearing?\" when I reported an attack and attempted rape. #YesAllWomen\n\u2014 Aimee Mann (@aimeemann) May 25, 2014\n\n\n\"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.\" - Margaret Atwood #yesallwomen\n\u2014 Jen Kirkman (@JenKirkman) May 25, 2014\n\n\nIf I\u2019m losing followers because I retweeted some #YesAllWomen posts, then good riddance.\n\u2014 Veronica Belmont (@Veronica) May 25, 2014\n\n\nBecause women are taught to carry our keys like a weapon in case we're attacked in a parking lot. #YesAllWomen\n\u2014 annie cardi (@anniecardi) May 24, 2014\n\nMany men joined in, tweeting with the hashtag in support of women and condemning their experiences of sexual inequality.\n\nDear men: women don't owe you a goddamn thing. That's right, not even a smile. #YesAllWomen\n\u2014 Dean Garlick (@dean_garlick) May 26, 2014\n\n\nTwitter ruined my life but it has really justified its existence in the last 36 hours with #YesAllWomen.\n\u2014 Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) May 25, 2014\n\n\nThe #yesallwomen hashtag is filled with hard, true, sad and angry things. I can empathise &amp; try to understand &amp; know I never entirely will.\n\u2014 Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) May 25, 2014\n\nSome men responded to #YesAllWomen with another hashtag, #NotAllMen. The tag has existed for a while, and it's usually used in counterpoints to feminist arguments. However, in the wake of the shooting, tweets with #NotAllMen are more likely to be in support of #YesAllWomen than arguing against feminism.\n\n#YesAllWomen know it's #NotAllMen but when you don't speak up about sexism and violence against women your silence condones it.\n\u2014 Julie (@julieklippnich) May 26, 2014\n\n\nRT: #YesAllWomen Because so many men say \"#NotAllMen do that\" but almost NEVER say, \"Hey, man, don't do that!\"\n\u2014 Jean Johnson (@JeanJAuthor) May 26, 2014\n\n\n#Notallmen understand that it\u2019s not all about them.\n\u2014 Clementine Ford (@clementine_ford) May 26, 2014\n\n\"What men have to really understand is what we are doing is connecting the dots \u2014 the acceptance of everyday misogyny,\" Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), told Mashable. \"This young man was able to express all of this misogyny, and people sort of rolled their eyes and shrugged it off. The point of the hashtag is that ... it doesn't take much for a sense of entitlement translate into violence. We see that directly in rape.\"\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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