Palmares
4th November 2014, 15:12
Incase you forgot about gamergate...
Online feminist campaigners in Perth and Sydney have received threats of rape and violence after running campaigns against sexism on the net.
Last month Caitlin Roper, a feminist campaigner with the group Collective Shout, shared an online petition to ban Welsh footballer Ched Evans.
Evans was convicted of rape and the feminist campaigners urged football clubs not to re-hire him.
Ms Roper was then inundated with Twitter abuse from the footballer's supporters.
"So it had my picture and what looked like my Twitter handle and everything else was the same except he had included a graphic list of sex acts that I would perform for men online," Ms Roper said.
West Australian police are currently investigating Ms Roper's complaint.
In June last year another feminist campaigner, Talitha Stone, campaigned on Twitter against an American rapper called Tyler the Creator.
Ms Stone objected to his lyrics, which included rape and violence against women.
She then received threats and online abuse from the rapper's Twitter followers.
"I had people saying that I secretly wanted Tyler to forcibly penetrate my anal cavity," Ms Stone said.
"I had people saying that I needed to be raped, that it's feminists like us that deserve to be raped."
Both women want the police to pursue the Twitter users who made the abusive comments in Australia and overseas.
Continued here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-05/online-feminist-campaigners-threatened-with-violence-rape/5866912
I'm not a social media user anymore, and not so for many years now, but I'm guessing this stuff pretty rampant. I remember back in the day in my experience on social media there were fucked up shit going on then, but it seems in more recent years people have realised how far things can be pushed, and how much they can get away with - almost anything.
It really is this bad isn't it?
Man, fuck these sexist rape apologist pricks... :mad:
Online feminist campaigners in Perth and Sydney have received threats of rape and violence after running campaigns against sexism on the net.
Last month Caitlin Roper, a feminist campaigner with the group Collective Shout, shared an online petition to ban Welsh footballer Ched Evans.
Evans was convicted of rape and the feminist campaigners urged football clubs not to re-hire him.
Ms Roper was then inundated with Twitter abuse from the footballer's supporters.
"So it had my picture and what looked like my Twitter handle and everything else was the same except he had included a graphic list of sex acts that I would perform for men online," Ms Roper said.
West Australian police are currently investigating Ms Roper's complaint.
In June last year another feminist campaigner, Talitha Stone, campaigned on Twitter against an American rapper called Tyler the Creator.
Ms Stone objected to his lyrics, which included rape and violence against women.
She then received threats and online abuse from the rapper's Twitter followers.
"I had people saying that I secretly wanted Tyler to forcibly penetrate my anal cavity," Ms Stone said.
"I had people saying that I needed to be raped, that it's feminists like us that deserve to be raped."
Both women want the police to pursue the Twitter users who made the abusive comments in Australia and overseas.
Continued here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-05/online-feminist-campaigners-threatened-with-violence-rape/5866912
I'm not a social media user anymore, and not so for many years now, but I'm guessing this stuff pretty rampant. I remember back in the day in my experience on social media there were fucked up shit going on then, but it seems in more recent years people have realised how far things can be pushed, and how much they can get away with - almost anything.
It really is this bad isn't it?
Man, fuck these sexist rape apologist pricks... :mad: