#sexualharassment

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

My body is not your debate.

[leftistfeminista]

Trolls Used Her Face to Make Fake Porn. There Was Nothing She Could Do.

Sabrina Javellana was a rising star in local politics — until deepfakes derailed her life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/sabrina-javellana-florida-politics-ai-porn.html

Most mornings, before walking into City Hall in Hallandale Beach, Fla., a small city north of Miami, Sabrina Javellana would sit in the parking lot and monitor her Twitter and Instagram accounts. After winning a seat on the Hallandale Beach city commission in 2018, at age 21, she became one of the youngest elected officials in Florida’s history. Her progressive political positions had sometimes earned her enemies: After proposing a name change for a state thoroughfare called Dixie Highway in late 2019, she regularly received vitriolic and violent threats on social media; her condemnation of police brutality and calls for criminal-justice reform prompted aggressive rhetoric from members of local law enforcement. Disturbing messages were nothing new to her.

The morning of Feb. 5, 2021, though, she noticed an unusual one. “Hi, just wanted to let you know that somebody is sharing pictures of you online and discussing you in quite a grotesque manner,” it began. “He claims that he’s one of your ‘guy friends.’”

Javellana froze. Who could have sent this message? She asked for evidence, and the sender responded with pixelated screenshots of a forum thread that included photos of her. There were comments that mentioned her political career. Had her work drawn these people’s ire? Eventually, with a friend’s help, she found a set of archived pages from the notorious forum site 4chan. Most of the images were pulled from her social media and annotated with obscene, misogynistic remarks: “not thicc enough”; “I would breed her”; “no sane person would date such a stupid creature.” But one image further down the thread stopped her short. She was standing in front of a full-length mirror with her head tilted to the side, smiling playfully. She had posted an almost identical selfie, in which she wore a brown crew-neck top and matching skirt, to her Instagram account back in 2015. “It was the exact same picture,” Javellana said of the doctored image. “But I wasn’t wearing any clothes.”

There were several more. These were deepfakes: A.I.-generated images that manipulate a person’s likeness, fusing it with others to create a false picture or video, sometimes pornographic, in a way that looks authentic. Although fake explicit material has existed for decades thanks to image-editing software, deepfakes stand out for their striking believability. Even Javellana was shaken by their apparent authenticity.

“I didn’t know that this was something that happened to everyday people,” Javellana told me when I visited her earlier this year in Florida. She wondered if anyone else had seen the photos or the abusive comments online. Several of the threads even implied that people on the forum knew her. “I live in Broward County,” one comment read. “She just graduated from FIU.” Other users threatened sexual violence. In the days that followed, Javellana became increasingly fearful and paranoid. She stopped walking alone at night and started triple-checking that her doors and windows were locked before she slept. In an effort to protect her personal life, she made her Instagram private and removed photographs of herself in a bathing suit.

Discovering the images changed how Javellana operated professionally. Attending press events was part of her job, but now she felt anxious every time someone lifted their camera. She worried that public images of her would be turned into pornography, so she covered as much of her body as she could, favoring high-cut blouses and blazers. She knew she wasn’t acting rationally — people could create new deepfakes regardless of how much skin she showed in the real world — but changing her style made her feel a sense of control. If the deepfakes went viral, no one could look at how she dressed and think that she had invited this harassment.

[rafasgirl23415]

It Ends with Us' Isabela Ferrer accuses Justin Baldoni of 'harassment'

The 41-year-old filmmaker selected the 24-year-old nepo baby to make her big-screen acting debut as the young Lily Bloom in 2023 following a

@jerzwriter-reblogs-asks That’s at least 4 ( including Blake ) who have said they’ve had some sort of problem with this pervert. How much more proof do people need that he’s a danger to women in the acting profession?

[rjalker]

It's time to play guess who said it! A trans person on tumblr.com, or a conservative on one of the Evil People Social Media sites?

"You think sexual harassment is bad? What are you, triggered? You won't survive the winter."

[ID: A venn diagram with one side labeled, "Conservatives on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and all the other 'evil bad people' social media sites". The other side is labeled, "Trans people on tumblr.com". The center reads, "people who think sexual harassment is cool and normal and funny and only cringey weaklings who won't survive in the real world have a problem with it". End ID.]

it's 2024 and we have fully grown adults on tumblr.com defending the most basic blatant forms of sexual harassment, and then reacting exactly like any random conservative would do when called out on it: Do it again out of spite.

You are not meaningfully different from any random conservative just because you're trans if you refuse to unlearn the horrific shit this society has taught you is okay.

Sexual harassment is literally always bad. It is never justified. If you sexually harass people, you are a bad person. If you double down on it when you get called out for it, you're a horrible person.

[thegazette5]

pew is french for pervert

when I was a kid I hated pepe le pew, I thought he was a gross pervert that sexually harassed penelope 🤔🤔🤔 of course most of his defenders are women who's still waiting for her cliche male mc from whattpad... guess what? in real life those sad women can find them in a place called jail.

ps 1: pepe le pew doesn't care if his victim is a man, ask sylvester. pepe le pew sexually harasses everybody.

ps 2: his fans say his victims run away 'cause he stinks 😂😂😂 no, his victims run away 'cause they're being touched and kissed against their will.

ps 3: joe goldberg grew up watching him.

[olddiaryofnyxx]

Oh, of course, because it's totally normal and acceptable for every single girl to have to deal with disgusting sexual harassment. It's just a rite of passage, right????? How silly of me to think that maybe we could live in a world where girls and women don't have to constantly worry about being harassed or assaulted. Silly, silly me.

–I'm sorry, but I can't show you a single girl who hasn't gone through the disgusting situation of sexual harassment or assault..

[andersonswords]

A beautiful night turned sour by boastful winds.

TW: Mentions of sexual assault and sexual harassment

When I was sixteen, my boyfriend would push himself on me. He would force his face on mine and pin me to the couch. He’d run his hands over my body and find a way between my legs with his hand. He called me sexy and hot. I wore skinny jeans and a sweater. It was a crisp Autumn day.

When I was twenty, I walked to the mental health clinic for my group therapy session. Two guys in a truck pulled along me walking. They yelled obscenities, calling me goodlookin’ and babygirl. I wore baggy jeans and a sweater. It was a warm Winter day.

When I was twenty-one, I was running errands in a small riverside town. As I walked across the street, an older man leaned out his car window and yelled “beautiful” at me. I wore a sun dress and sandals. It was a sunny Summer day.

One week ago, still twenty-one. I was out with my partner, getting drinks at our favourite bar. A man comes up to the bar with his friends and tell me I’ve been giving him “looks” since I got there. He shook my hand and asked me my name. His friend bought everyone shots. As I clinked my glass with them, the man said that I am the most beautiful person he’s ever seen. He looks at his friend and says “damn I just want them to have my babies”. They all laugh. The friends go outside for a smoke. The man pretends he’s drunk and puts his full body weight on me, tipping my chair over. He does this to my partner too. The bartender leads him out of the bar. The tears come. They stop. I was wearing a black dress and black platform boots. It was September 15th, 2023. A beautiful night turned sour by boastful winds.

[addison1992]

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