The internet is just mean, to everyone. I feel like with the negative karma on all this ladies unpleasant comments she really didn't get it that bad.
The internet is just mean, to everyone. I feel like with the negative karma on all this ladies unpleasant comments she really didn't get it that bad.
I don't think gatekeeping bad experiences on the internet is really helpful here.
My first upload to Youtube received a comment, "You're nothing but a big fat Jew!" I think that this is quite representative of the hate of the Internet at large.
This sort of blindness towards abuse towards men is not just here on the Internets. In real life, progress made against ritual genital mutilation is happening for women but not for men.
It may be true that women get harassed more frequently, but if you really get targeted, your gender doesn't seem to matter all that much.
To clarify, I'm not saying women are "harassed more frequently." That seems not to be the case, and yet here's a study that "showed that while male celebrities, female journalists, and male politicians face the highest likelihood of online hostility, women are significantly more likely to be targeted specifically because of their gender, and men are overwhelmingly those doing the harassing." [3]
The types of online harassment are multiple and varied; we could equally single racist, fatphobic, and, as the earlier comment mentioned, antisemitic abuse out as well. We can even talk about the abuse faced by men -- I've been active online for 30 years, I'm a male, I'm not blind to it -- but that is not what this post is about. It's about the specifically gendered nature of abuse faced by women online. So I reiterate my point that "well, actually"-ing about other kinds of abuse only distracts from the salient topic and undermines what women like Kager are trying to highlight.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/06/higher-proport...
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-24/women-receive-three-t...
[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2018/03/online-vi...
[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/the-u...