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“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

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Why are women targets for online abuse? - BBC News

Online abuse against women is on the rise, but why aren't the police, the government and social media companies doing more to stop it?A BBC Panorama investig...

Published October 18, 2021

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"All together now: Women don't cause sexual harassment, harassers do. "

Kirsten Powers

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Online Harassment Isn't Growing—But It's Getting More Severe

4 in 10 Americans say they’ve experienced abuse while online, with a larger share facing sexual harassment and stalking.

Published June 28, 2021

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“If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.”

John Scalzi

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"An 11-year analysis of online harassment cases found that women made up 72% of victims and men 47.5% of perpetrators."

https://womensmediacenter.com/speech-project/research-statistics#_ftn5 

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U.S. internet users who have experienced online harassment 2021 | Statista

During a January 2021 survey it was found that 41 percent of internet users had personally experienced any kind of online harassment with 27 percent of respondents reporting to having experienced severe forms of online harassment such as physical threats, sexual harassment, stalking and sustained harassment.

Published by Joseph Johnson, Jan 25, 2022

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"If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don't notice is infinitely worse.

Celeste Ng

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Women face disproportionate attacks online. One expert shares some of the details

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with disinformation researcher Nina Jankowicz about her new book, How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back.

Published April 16, 2022 on NPR

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"It doesn't mean that I should be subjected to the tsunami of gender and sexualized violence"

Ashley Judd on  Stop the trolls: Women Fight Online Harassment

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Online Abuse 101 - Women’s Media Center

Our Online Abuse Wheel summarizes the tactics, legal issues, and impacts of online abuse.

This is a list of 28 different types of online abuse and their definitions. 

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For Prominent Women on Instagram, DMs Can Be a Cesspool of Misogyny

A report on direct messages sent to five women found that “abuse and harmful content is allowed to thrive” on Instagram. The platform’s parent company, Meta, said it disagreed with the report’s conclusions.

This article is written about the report published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (see full report in next post).

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How Instagram fails to report on 9 out of 10 reports of misogyny in DMs

This report was published April 6th, 2022. 

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*** Warning *** This video has explicit language. It could also be a trigger for some people. 

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We Need To Stop Online Abuse

I have never experienced any form of online harassment and for that I am thankful. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. Online harassment is prevalent and very serious. Unfortunately, there isn’t much that can be done about it either.

 In 2014 a survey conducted by Pew Research revealed that 70% of all 18 to 24 year-olds had experienced online harassment. In addition, 26% of those were women who had been stalked online.  (Stein, 2016) According to a more recent Pew Research study, 41% of all Americans have been victims of online harassment and 25% have experience severe harassment such as sexual harassment, physical threats, stalking, slut shaming, etc.  (Vogels, 2021)

Something has to be done to stop this type of behavior. There needs to be better regulatory policies and consequences for these crimes. However, and unfortunately many of these predators are never prosecuted because like many real-life situations, the victims do not speak up because of fear of more severe harassment and threats. In addition, many law enforcement agencies do not know how to investigate these types of crimes. Although social media policies against harassment are becoming more stringent, more and more activists are campaigning for justice it is only a matter of time before the federal, state and local governments will have the ability to enforce safe online behavior. Hopefully sooner than later.