Gendertrolling by Mantilla Karla

Author:Mantilla, Karla
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781440833182
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2015-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Eleanor O’Hagan, journalist and columnist for the Guardian, concurs:

To me, misogynistic abuse is an attempt to silence women. Traditionally, men have been the ones who influence the direction of society: I think there is still a sense that it’s not women’s place to be involved in politics. That’s why the abuse women writers experience is really pernicious and needs to stop. Women will never achieve equality so long as they’re being intimidated out of the picture.28

Marcotte also agrees that harassment of women online is done to coerce women into silence and submission: “It’s all just a new way of expressing a very old—indeed, an ancient—sentiment, that a woman’s place is to be silent, submissive, and servile to men and that any women who disagree are to be put down with violence.”29

An anonymous blogger, quoted in a New Statesman article about online harassment of women, also sees gendertrolling as a way to attempt to intimidate or silence feminists or, at a minimum, to induce them to be overly cautious in their writing:

I would say the misogynistic abuse that a number of women bloggers and writers have received functions as a form of censorship and warning to the ones not currently experiencing it to watch what we say.

As feminists, we know that there’s at least something about us or something we want to say that will incur the wrath of misogynists. We’re constantly ducking and diving, choosing our words carefully and having to walk the tightrope of being completely true to our beliefs, regardless of whether they happen to please other feminists or (conversely) the sexist majority, but also making sure we don’t prompt misogynists to attack us because of an ill-chosen word or two.

We feel like our arguments have to be tight at all times and that we’d better not type out anything less than reasonable (in anger) because the punishment we receive is likely to be disproportionate to the intellectual crime.30

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