Gamers retaliate: activists barraged with rape, mutilation and death threats after Grand Theft Auto win
How pro GTAV gamers cyber mobs try to shut us down (Trigger warning) This is just a sample of the vicious messages activists received yesterday following the announcement by Target Australia and then Kmart, that they would no longer stock GTAV. As well (I can’t show the image, it is too distressing), the face of one […]
‘I bloody hate u bitch’: more fan mail from the Brosphere
This message from a special fan landed in my public profile Facebook inbox this morning. I won’t include his name, as he would probably enjoy that too much. You are a dickhead. You fk’n leso feminist. I bloody hate u bitch. You always have something to say. I bet you think “Playgirl” with pictures of […]
Why I’m calling on Twitter to stop abuse
US Rapper Tyler The Creator unleashes a torrent of hate on Sydney activist By Talitha Stone I’m a 23-year-old psychology student from Sydney and in June this year, I was subjected to a horrific torrent of abusive tweets from fans of touring American rapper Tyler Okonma. I challenged Okonma’s lyrics which encourage rape and violence […]
When men threaten to rape you: this is what twitter abuse looks like
The price you pay for activism – but it won’t stop us [Warning: threatening, sexually violent language] Caitlin Roper, my fellow Collective Shout activist in the West, has put together this montage of some of the abusive and threatening tweets we receive on a regular basis. We want people to know just how bad this […]
Tax office admits it gave ‘unacceptable’ response to MTR complaint re sexist tweet
Apologies for the way I was treated and undertakings to improve It wasn’t easy doing this. But now the Australian Public Service Commission and the Australian Tax Office is on the record on oath saying that policy and practice will change for the better. This is how the ABC reported it: The head of the […]
Misogynistic ads and the oxygen of publicity
In a week in which I was described as everything from ugly, to jealous, to Hitler (I’m sure Nazi is just around the corner), and in which my fellow activists were also attacked for our campaign against the Lingerie Football League, some words of wisdom from the Women’s Media Center. Couldn’t have put it better […]
Women bloggers call for a stop to ‘hateful’ trolling by misogynist men
‘ Women are supposed to be sexual objects, we’re still not supposed to be thinking, feeling, complex human beings. It is due to the continual representation of women as just beauties, the attempt to reduce women to a surface on which we project sexuality. So we’re not real people’. The electronic vilification of Australian women […]