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“Frankly if you are a woman on the internet you might as well have a
 sign on your back that says, “Troll me”. If you have an opinion or
   focus on a commenting in a male dominated field, you probably
                        double your chances.”
                      - Sue, DC Women Kick Ass
                   http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/30910472373/troll
“[A]fter some verbal sparring, he finally showed his true colours by
 issuing a rape threat. I’ve never gotten one of those, and I was a bit
  shaken, yes, despite knowing it was nothing to worry about. But it
                            didn’t stop there.

The next night, the guy sent in one of his trolls to harass me. I woke
  up to my phone constantly beeping with notifications as the troll
proceeded to write obscene comments all over my Facebook, on my
 cover photos, public posts, profile picture, whatever he could find.”

     - Ghausia Rashid Salam, My first (won’t be my last) cyber-rape threat
                                              https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/my-first-wont-be-my-last-cyber-rape-threat




Photo by A.Currell, Flickr, Some rights reserved
“I was only able to make a connection once all of them started to
 send me similar threats and messages. They started sending me rape
  threats in mid June 2012, it was the same period that they tried to
      hack my personal and professional accounts to remove the
information that I published about them on internet and social media.
     I reported them during the same time in July 2012 to FIA.”
                        - Ayesha, Ayesha’s story
                      https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/ayeshas-story




                                                                            Photo by victoriapeckham, Flickr, Some rights reserved
“My own 'mentions' tab on Twitter is generally flooded with unoriginal misogynist,
    heteronormative responses, ranging all the way from claims that I'm a feminist
 because I'm ‘too ugly to land a man’ to claims that I'm actually a ‘confused lesbian’,
all the way to threats of ‘corrective rape’ because I choose to tweet -- just tweet --
about issues such as childhood sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and other forms of
   sexualised violence. I've received vile, detailed messages from random strangers
    who decide to tell me my home address and then live out their rape fantasies
 online by telling me in graphic detail which parts of my body they would like to do
                                       things to.”

     - Urooj Zia, She's begging to be raped – Twitterverse for Feminists in Pakistan!
                https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/shes-begging-be-raped-twitterverse-feminists-pakistan
“Comments about me. About my kids. Accusations about
me. Homophobic comments. Abelist Comments. And, of
           course, rape. Just charming.”

 “All told he used, that I can find in my records, 70 + emails and IP addresses on my
blog. I know I just deleted many more. And of course there the many, many names
    off the blog where he’d show up where ever my name was mentioned on the
 internet to post about me under one his many aliases. If I did an interview? He was
there. If some site linked to something I wrote? He was there. When Kelly and I did
 the podcast, he was there. He was more subtle in those places. Mostly. There was
       still the palatable nutsy rage but without the sexual or abusive language.”

                                    - Sue, DC Women Kick Ass
                              http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/30910472373/troll



 Photo by tiegeltuf, Flickr
 Some rights reserved
“When text threats are not enough harassers will resort to pornographic drawings
 as weapons to make sure their threats of sexual assault are clear. These are just
two of the many rape drawings featuring my likeness which have been spammed to
 my email, posted to my Facebook page and sent through other social media like
                              Twitter and YouTube.”
               - Anita, Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny
              http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassment-and-visual-misogyny/
On July 5th 2012 an interactive domestic abuse style “game” entitled “Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian” was
uploaded to the NewGrounds website by one of the site’s users. It invited players to “punch this bitch in
  the face” and with each click a photoshopped image of me would become progressively more bloody
                         and battered until the screen turned completely red.

                            - Anita, Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny
                  http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassment-and-visual-misogyny/
Photo by nicolas - ‫,نيكولس‬
                                                                                                    Flickr, Some rights reserved




    “I do not understand how these men can so easily, so casually,
  threaten to rape a woman. How can they possibly think it’s no big
deal if a woman’s body is violated against her will? Even if they do not
understand the psychological trauma of rape victims, surely they must
  be aware of how terrible rape is! The guy initially attacked me for
 criticizing religion, this religion he’s so quick to defend, does it really
                      say it is okay to rape a woman?”

   - Ghausia Rashid Salam, My first (won’t be my last) cyber-rape threat
                 https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/my-first-wont-be-my-last-cyber-rape-threat
So for anyone who thinks that ignoring a troll makes them
go away? It doesn’t. And anyone who thinks this is a matter
  of using the banning button or block or ignore button? It
   isn’t. And for anyone who thinks that if you don’t talk
  about it you can keep the troll under control? It doesn’t.

                   - Sue, DC Women Kick Ass
                 http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/30910472373/troll
“This is about the internet. And no, I’m not leaving the internet to let anyone win.
[...] Sometimes I would get sad when I was batting away dozens of hate-filled things
while in my timeline my male comedian friends were just joking along having fun - as
we all should be. And I felt like I was alone on the playground and I wanted them to
                                 speak up for me. [..]”




              “I wanted my male comedian friends to write, in
              public, about things they have expressed to me in
              private about how much they feel for the women
                 in their life who are still spoken to this way”

                   - Jen, Let’s drown out the bad voices (revised)
              http://jenkirkman.tumblr.com/post/36829074561/lets-drown-out-the-bad-voices-revised
“The problem is very real. Misogyny is very real. Violence
  against women, cyber violence against women, cyber
harassment, is very real. Until we acknowledge this, it will
continue on in this form, and no solution will be found as
           long as keep denying its existence.”
      - Ghausia Rashid Salam, My first (won’t be my last) cyber-rape threat
                https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/my-first-wont-be-my-last-cyber-rape-threat

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Misogyny online | Freedom of expression & violence

  • 1. “Frankly if you are a woman on the internet you might as well have a sign on your back that says, “Troll me”. If you have an opinion or focus on a commenting in a male dominated field, you probably double your chances.” - Sue, DC Women Kick Ass http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/30910472373/troll
  • 2. “[A]fter some verbal sparring, he finally showed his true colours by issuing a rape threat. I’ve never gotten one of those, and I was a bit shaken, yes, despite knowing it was nothing to worry about. But it didn’t stop there. The next night, the guy sent in one of his trolls to harass me. I woke up to my phone constantly beeping with notifications as the troll proceeded to write obscene comments all over my Facebook, on my cover photos, public posts, profile picture, whatever he could find.” - Ghausia Rashid Salam, My first (won’t be my last) cyber-rape threat https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/my-first-wont-be-my-last-cyber-rape-threat Photo by A.Currell, Flickr, Some rights reserved
  • 3. “I was only able to make a connection once all of them started to send me similar threats and messages. They started sending me rape threats in mid June 2012, it was the same period that they tried to hack my personal and professional accounts to remove the information that I published about them on internet and social media. I reported them during the same time in July 2012 to FIA.” - Ayesha, Ayesha’s story https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/ayeshas-story Photo by victoriapeckham, Flickr, Some rights reserved
  • 4. “My own 'mentions' tab on Twitter is generally flooded with unoriginal misogynist, heteronormative responses, ranging all the way from claims that I'm a feminist because I'm ‘too ugly to land a man’ to claims that I'm actually a ‘confused lesbian’, all the way to threats of ‘corrective rape’ because I choose to tweet -- just tweet -- about issues such as childhood sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and other forms of sexualised violence. I've received vile, detailed messages from random strangers who decide to tell me my home address and then live out their rape fantasies online by telling me in graphic detail which parts of my body they would like to do things to.” - Urooj Zia, She's begging to be raped – Twitterverse for Feminists in Pakistan! https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/shes-begging-be-raped-twitterverse-feminists-pakistan
  • 5. “Comments about me. About my kids. Accusations about me. Homophobic comments. Abelist Comments. And, of course, rape. Just charming.” “All told he used, that I can find in my records, 70 + emails and IP addresses on my blog. I know I just deleted many more. And of course there the many, many names off the blog where he’d show up where ever my name was mentioned on the internet to post about me under one his many aliases. If I did an interview? He was there. If some site linked to something I wrote? He was there. When Kelly and I did the podcast, he was there. He was more subtle in those places. Mostly. There was still the palatable nutsy rage but without the sexual or abusive language.” - Sue, DC Women Kick Ass http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/30910472373/troll Photo by tiegeltuf, Flickr Some rights reserved
  • 6. “When text threats are not enough harassers will resort to pornographic drawings as weapons to make sure their threats of sexual assault are clear. These are just two of the many rape drawings featuring my likeness which have been spammed to my email, posted to my Facebook page and sent through other social media like Twitter and YouTube.” - Anita, Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassment-and-visual-misogyny/
  • 7. On July 5th 2012 an interactive domestic abuse style “game” entitled “Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian” was uploaded to the NewGrounds website by one of the site’s users. It invited players to “punch this bitch in the face” and with each click a photoshopped image of me would become progressively more bloody and battered until the screen turned completely red. - Anita, Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassment-and-visual-misogyny/
  • 8. Photo by nicolas - ‫,نيكولس‬ Flickr, Some rights reserved “I do not understand how these men can so easily, so casually, threaten to rape a woman. How can they possibly think it’s no big deal if a woman’s body is violated against her will? Even if they do not understand the psychological trauma of rape victims, surely they must be aware of how terrible rape is! The guy initially attacked me for criticizing religion, this religion he’s so quick to defend, does it really say it is okay to rape a woman?” - Ghausia Rashid Salam, My first (won’t be my last) cyber-rape threat https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/my-first-wont-be-my-last-cyber-rape-threat
  • 9. So for anyone who thinks that ignoring a troll makes them go away? It doesn’t. And anyone who thinks this is a matter of using the banning button or block or ignore button? It isn’t. And for anyone who thinks that if you don’t talk about it you can keep the troll under control? It doesn’t. - Sue, DC Women Kick Ass http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/30910472373/troll
  • 10. “This is about the internet. And no, I’m not leaving the internet to let anyone win. [...] Sometimes I would get sad when I was batting away dozens of hate-filled things while in my timeline my male comedian friends were just joking along having fun - as we all should be. And I felt like I was alone on the playground and I wanted them to speak up for me. [..]” “I wanted my male comedian friends to write, in public, about things they have expressed to me in private about how much they feel for the women in their life who are still spoken to this way” - Jen, Let’s drown out the bad voices (revised) http://jenkirkman.tumblr.com/post/36829074561/lets-drown-out-the-bad-voices-revised
  • 11. “The problem is very real. Misogyny is very real. Violence against women, cyber violence against women, cyber harassment, is very real. Until we acknowledge this, it will continue on in this form, and no solution will be found as long as keep denying its existence.” - Ghausia Rashid Salam, My first (won’t be my last) cyber-rape threat https://www.takebackthetech.net/write/my-first-wont-be-my-last-cyber-rape-threat