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> Early on people said "There are no girls on the internet," and the sentence was supposed to embody the anonymity of the internet and the renaissance notion that a person should be judged by the merits of their arguments and not the labels attached to them.

No, it was supposed to embody the fact that there were literally very few women on the majority of online message boards and chat rooms for a long time...



"Where the men are men, the women are men, and the little girls are FBI agents"




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