“Violence against women in public spaces serves to intimidate women and their families from challenging this status quo. And this is what happens when men harass women online, too.” via WMC's the_fbomb
in 2020, which studied tweets published between March and May 2019, revealed one in every seven tweets directed toward women was problematic or abusive and one in every five tweets were sexist or misogynistic.
Yet, as time went on, the status quo was repeated in the digital world; it started replicating the offline world’s power dynamics.Jean Chapman argues that violence against women in public spaces is political, in that public spaces have historically been reserved for men. Violence against women in them, therefore, serves to intimidate women and their families from challenging this status quo. And this is what happens when men harass women online, too.
“When they see your name, they feel they have the authority to shit on you,” Mehar*, a 20-year-old Muslim woman studying in Delhi, told the FBomb about her experience with trolls. “They don’t want you to occupy the online space as a Muslim woman. I have changed my usernames and profile pictures to hide myself. It’s really tough if you’re visibly Muslim. I have been pushed into silence.”
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