If you’re a woman, you most likely know very well how it feels to protect yourself from online abuse and harassment. In many cases, it feels like women have this “unjust burden” thrown at them which is only getting worse with each new way of communication. Imagine men who would have never considered standing on a street corner in a trench coat are now bullying and harassing women they meet online. How did it happen?
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The experts now say that sexual harassment made online is no less dangerous to a victim than physical harassment done in real life. “It is inevitable that some of these people will then go on to commit contact sexual offenses, but it is not possible to say at this time what sort of proportion that is,” Clare McGlynn, Professor of Law and expert in image-based sexual abuse, from Durham Law School, told HuffPost UK.
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Meanwhile, Laura Thompson, a lead researcher at City University, believes that with the digital age and more and more platforms coming out, people always find a way to weaponize them. Moreover, according to her, “while women seem to have largely accepted this as part of the unwritten laws of internet interaction, finding the solution to this type of abuse should not fall into the laps of victims because it 'curtails women’s opportunities.'”
Laura believes that it’s “unfair to expect women to be continually self-policing and every time they want to use some function online, they need to think about how it might be misused by someone else and we can’t scare women off using the internet, or smartphone technology, because it is simply not fair.”
