Have you or someone you know been targeted online because you’re a feminist? What happened?
Or have you been targeted online because someone thought you were a feminist?
Targeting: Calling you filty names; swearing at you; publicly discussing your appearance or sexual orientation; publicly “sharing” your personal information they’ve gathered about you; publicly (or by email or IM) threatening you with bodily harm, often as a “joke” (hit, slap, beat, rape, death); continuing to contact you after you’ve asked them to stop and have blocked them; publicly sharing personal information about family or friends they have gathered about you; following you in Yahoo forums, or to other forums or blogs and harassing you; using false identities to get access to your questions, answers, blogs, email addresses, personal information; cloning (impersonating) you; targeting your questions and answers to try to humiliate, degrade, and intimidate you and get your id and profiles deleted.
Have you or someone you know been targeted online because you’re a feminist? What happened?
Posted on December 6th, 2009 in Gender & Women's Studies | 6 Comments »