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Why is it some people can't handle women expressing themselves?
Wuthering
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Take the latest hacking debacle and Jennifer Lawrence's reaction. She dares to express anger and passion about something that's affecting her, so some neanderthal hacks her Wiki page.
Emma Watson also faced a backlash and threats of hacking after her #HeForShe speech.
Remember the lady who campaigned to get Jane Austen featured on the bank note and the horrific abuse she received, including rape and death threads and how two of the people attacking her were extreme enough in their behaviour to be sentenced for it?
JK Rowling daring to express an opinion about Scottish Independence also seemed too much for many people to handle.
There seems to be no end to incidents of a woman expressing something only to then be met with an absolutely insane backlash. I cannot understand this.
Also, while I know men too get trolled and abused online, there is something very specific and nasty and sexist about the abuse women receive. Almost always they will find themselves getting disgusting comments and threats about rape and other sexual threats and abuse. I find this a really big concern and wonder if more could or should be done to educate people about their behaviour online and sexism in general.
In 2014, I find it shocking there is seemingly a large section of society - male and female - who don't think a woman has a right to express herself without facing sex threat based abuse.
What is WRONG with these people!
Emma Watson also faced a backlash and threats of hacking after her #HeForShe speech.
Remember the lady who campaigned to get Jane Austen featured on the bank note and the horrific abuse she received, including rape and death threads and how two of the people attacking her were extreme enough in their behaviour to be sentenced for it?
JK Rowling daring to express an opinion about Scottish Independence also seemed too much for many people to handle.
There seems to be no end to incidents of a woman expressing something only to then be met with an absolutely insane backlash. I cannot understand this.
Also, while I know men too get trolled and abused online, there is something very specific and nasty and sexist about the abuse women receive. Almost always they will find themselves getting disgusting comments and threats about rape and other sexual threats and abuse. I find this a really big concern and wonder if more could or should be done to educate people about their behaviour online and sexism in general.
In 2014, I find it shocking there is seemingly a large section of society - male and female - who don't think a woman has a right to express herself without facing sex threat based abuse.
What is WRONG with these people!
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Its everyone and anyone these days. Nothing to do with gender.
iirc they weren't gender-related threats and abuse, though. That doesn't happen to men so often.
Yes the type of verbal abuse is different.
To be fair it's not just women in sports who experience this, Wayne Rooney has been mocked for his appearance and been likened to Shrek. And males such as Linford Christe have been objectified for his private parts.
I find that very strange.
I mean, has there EVER been an attractive female winner of Wimbledon?
Yeah, Sharapova.
Or if you're a male who has the balls to go against the grain, you get derided as a White Knight.
Hacked? LMFAO
Do you write headlines for the Daily Mail?
You do realise ANYONE can edit Wikipedia?
One out of about 130 then.
Don't recall AM getting threatened with gang rape for expressing his views though.
so there you go enough said
But I guess that the women theoreticians have an explanation as to why that too is at root men's fault.
Wuthering meant 'vandalised', but you already knew that.
I think it's a combination of men with a massive inferiority complex, or lack of success with the opposite sex.
I've met a few very 'blokey' blokes if you know what I mean, and whilst they were always on about what they would do to certain women and how they should stay at the sink etc. etc. When it came down to it, they were very sad individuals who could hardly string a coherent sentence together when in front of a woman.
Pretty sad and pathetic really, but par for the course where a lot of blokes are concerned.
That can't be it. I am hopeless with the opposite sex but I don't go around blaming women for that. I blame myself because I am odd as fook.
Male celebs don't tend to get rape threats though.