whisper network

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any informal network of people who share information or gossip.
    — There is a whisper network in Bisbee, of codes and messages telling weary crossers where they can stay, safely hidden from the border patrol.
  2. An informal network of women privately sharing information, typically of people alleged to be sexual harassers, abusers, or rapists.
    — Bluntly: the Loon is part of the whisper network, because there are a very few librarians and library technologists whose behavior in the Loon’s presence does not incline the Loon to trust them to treat a young, conventionally-attractive female professional like a human being rather than an object of either aggressive sexual interest or airy dismissive scorn. There are a few more the Loon would not trust to treat a queer person like a human being. And just because the Loon cannot presently think of any professional acquaintances capable of consciously racist acts hardly means that there are none.

词形变化

whisper networks plural

词源

From the fact that the information is secret (whisper) and that it is a connection between multiple people (network).
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