Leigh Sales showed us the abuse women cop online. When are we going to stop tolerating misogyny?
Recently, Leigh Sales shared the abuse and harassment she receives via social media for doing her job. And being bombarded on Twitter isn’t reserved for high profile female journalists, as Louise Richardson-Self explains in this crossposting from The Conversation.
Another day, another woman being called a “whore” — and worse — on Twitter.
In the wake of her recent interview with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, ABC 730 host Leigh Sales posted some of the sexualised abuse she gets on Twitter just for doing her job.
This isn’t the first time Sales has faced an onslaught of misogynistic abuse. She says the “@ column” in her Twitter feed (where any Twitter account holders can send her messages) is “virtually unusable because of the constant stream of abuse”.
Any tertiary discipline with the word “Studies” in the title, is useless. Demonstrated in the above. No clinical study has proved any of the assertions made in this op-ed.
I totally agree.
I am also certain that females cop a big majority of online abuse, but it is not restricted to females, so we need to admit the gender ubiquity of online abuse.
Some of the most depressing reading out there is the forum and Twitter train on this. People (ok, let be clear. Men) saying “suck it up” at BEST. It’s like the stone age.
This isn’t about liking or disliking Leigh Sales or the ABC. It’s about normalised behaviour around abuse to women. And because she called it out? Whiner…
I think you’ll find philosophy has an academic tradition going back, say, a couple of millennia. And one or two contributions to society.
Not sure how or why you’d think this isn’t an issue that (a) exists and (b) deserves some focus for the general good of us all.