The article talks about how with internet trolling and abusive behaviour online, the majority of targets are that of the female gender. Majority of hateful and abusive behaviour is a rising trend in online activities where people use the internet as a platform to harass, intimidate, humiliate and abuse women. The article also talks about how feminists are actually fighting against this kind of negative behaviour and trend. Feminists are focusing a lot more on how the internet as an industry is dominated mostly by men and leadership roles needs to be challenged and taken on a lot more by females. By doing this and fighting against the negative behaviour, the internet will be a place where gender and sexuality wouldn't be an issue.
- 2015-16 saw a 10% increase in the number of prosecutions for violence against women and girls in England and Wales
- In May 2016, 6,500 individuals had been subjected to 10,000 aggressive and misogynistic tweets over a three-week period in the UK
- 80,000 people had been targeted by 200,000 such tweets internationally
In my own personal opinion, I believe that it is a great problem with the internet that people use it as a platform to abuse and violate others. However, anonymity and the idea of a "mob mentality" is something that has been deeply rooted into the internet as a problem and has been there since the beginning of the internet. It's something that I feel like doesn't just go out of it's way to target only females but it targets everyone, and is something that's just part of society. Although I don't agree with it, I think it's something that would be very difficult to tackle. I also believe that people for the best leadership and management roles should be picked in the industries for technology and media, having a female for the sake of having a female would defeat the purpose of the entire leadership role, and quite frankly that kind of attitude is disrespectful to the ideology of feminism.
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