We will never solve these problems if we are debating how victims should react rather than tackling them at their root. Whether women close their social media accounts when they receive threats is utterly beside the point; threatening to kill someone is illegal and perpetrators should be brought to justice. Whether a woman being shouted at in the street feels able to stop and respond or chooses to keep walking is completely irrelevant: the point is nobody should be harassing her in the first place. There is no “one size fits all” approach to misogynistic abuse, except tackling the perpetrators and preventing women from having to deal with it in the first place.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:40:55 +0000
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