Well Behaved Women Seldom Make Community Guidelines
Within the western world, social media platforms are nearly inescapable. Throughout the day, conversations surround; who’s subtweeting who, checking a Facebook invite for tonights plans or seeing which new love interest has slid into the DMs (direct messaging). In particular with Instagram, there has been a new-wave of exploring self-love and independence online networks. With owning a phone, one has access to taking photos at anytime, anywhere and the possibility to post them anytime, anywhere. Much of Instagram’s audience have turned the platform into a limitless curation of selfie culture or finding self-love though the appreciation of self portrait photography. Although this platforms …show more content…
With women posting, there is an outreach towards developing better communities acting as a resilience to women's liberation. Friedrich Nietzsch states his disagreement with agape as it leads to the lost of freedom, in Agape as Resentment and Suppression. His predominant focus is the structure of religious teachings; sympathy or agape which is taught within the bible is a sign of weakness rather than enlightenment. The instincts associated with self-preservation are the ones of value, as they push towards intellectual reason through means of survival. He states that “life itself, to my mind, is nothing more nor less than the instinct of growth, of permanence, of accumulating forces of power: where the will to power is lacking, degeneration sets in.”4 Life for Nietzsche is not that of sympathizing, as it allows for control from dominant structures and furthering the individual from seeking change, placing one into a submissive role. By entering a state of “pity,” we exhaust ourselves and lose the drive to create value for life, “pity exhorts people to nothing, to nonentity.”5 We pity the systems in place by continuing to post content without questioning it’s control over the audience. The dominance of Instagram is impacted due to; the platform's laws and policies, community sensorship, and internalized sensorship.6 Olszanowski defines “sensorship” as the censoring of the senses. “The appropriate-versus-inappropriate dichotomy is often turned into content management policy in many contemporary image based communications practices These networks, alongside other media, consist of a societal regulatory value system that defines the civic milieu... marked by a complicated, intertwined, and fluid frame of censorship.”7 By letting platforms censor bodies, content and expression, a sense of liberation is non-attainable thus
Within the western world, social media platforms are nearly inescapable. Throughout the day, conversations surround; who’s subtweeting who, checking a Facebook invite for tonights plans or seeing which new love interest has slid into the DMs (direct messaging). In particular with Instagram, there has been a new-wave of exploring self-love and independence online networks. With owning a phone, one has access to taking photos at anytime, anywhere and the possibility to post them anytime, anywhere. Much of Instagram’s audience have turned the platform into a limitless curation of selfie culture or finding self-love though the appreciation of self portrait photography. Although this platforms …show more content…
With women posting, there is an outreach towards developing better communities acting as a resilience to women's liberation. Friedrich Nietzsch states his disagreement with agape as it leads to the lost of freedom, in Agape as Resentment and Suppression. His predominant focus is the structure of religious teachings; sympathy or agape which is taught within the bible is a sign of weakness rather than enlightenment. The instincts associated with self-preservation are the ones of value, as they push towards intellectual reason through means of survival. He states that “life itself, to my mind, is nothing more nor less than the instinct of growth, of permanence, of accumulating forces of power: where the will to power is lacking, degeneration sets in.”4 Life for Nietzsche is not that of sympathizing, as it allows for control from dominant structures and furthering the individual from seeking change, placing one into a submissive role. By entering a state of “pity,” we exhaust ourselves and lose the drive to create value for life, “pity exhorts people to nothing, to nonentity.”5 We pity the systems in place by continuing to post content without questioning it’s control over the audience. The dominance of Instagram is impacted due to; the platform's laws and policies, community sensorship, and internalized sensorship.6 Olszanowski defines “sensorship” as the censoring of the senses. “The appropriate-versus-inappropriate dichotomy is often turned into content management policy in many contemporary image based communications practices These networks, alongside other media, consist of a societal regulatory value system that defines the civic milieu... marked by a complicated, intertwined, and fluid frame of censorship.”7 By letting platforms censor bodies, content and expression, a sense of liberation is non-attainable thus