#Safetytipsforladies: Feminist Twitter Takedowns of Victim Blaming

Rentschler, Carrie A.

doi:10.1080/14680777.2015.1008749

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“…The hashtags #YesAllWomen and #NotOkay, which emerged after the Isla Vista shootings and Trump Access Hollywood video respectively, laid the discursive groundwork for #MeToo's emergence [45,60,77,85]. Between these more visible hashtags, a number of networked counterpublics have coalesced around other hashtags addressing sexual violence against women, including #WhyIStayed [21], #IAmNotAfraidToSayIt [58], #IAmJada [94], #AskThicke [88], #safetytipsforladies [76], and #TheEmptyChair [45]. Collectively, these hashtag campaigns amplify a rejoinder to the mainstream public's inattention to sexual violence against women as an issue of public health [21,78].…”

Section: Networked Disclosures Through Hashtag Activismmentioning

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Reclaiming Stigmatized Narratives: The Networked Disclosure Landscape of #MeToo

Gallagher¹,

Stowell²,

Parker³

et al. 2019

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The social stigma looming over disclosures of sexual violence discourages many women from publicly sharing their stories, limiting their ability to seek support and obscuring the epidemic of sexual violence against women. By inviting women to share their ordinarily silenced stories, the hashtag #MeToo surfaced a network of survivors to confront this stigma. Through a mixed-methods analysis of over 1.5 million tweets posted during the first two weeks after #MeToo gained widespread popularity in 2017, we map the landscape of disclosures that emerged and disentangle the effects of network-level reciprocal disclosures, or disclosures made in reaction to seeing others disclose. We detail how survivors disclosed a diversity of sexual violence experiences in solidarity with others, composing nearly half of all authored tweets and comprising a disproportionate number of interactions within the #MeToo network. Further, we show that the more disclosures an individual potentially saw prior to disclosing, the more likely they were to share details with their disclosure. We argue that such network-level reciprocal disclosures may have reduced stigma, creating a counterpublic space safe for disclosure which, subsequently, generated more disclosures. Our work illustrates how feminist hashtag activism, like #MeToo, can unify individual and collective narratives to dismantle the stigma surrounding disclosures of sexual violence. Content warning: This article heavily discusses issues of sexual violence against women.

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Reclaiming Stigmatized Narratives: The Networked Disclosure Landscape of #MeToo

Gallagher¹,

Stowell²,

Parker³

et al. 2019

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“…Indeed, C. Rentschler (2015) and S. Thrift (2014) both argue that the construction, use, and distribution of feminist memes depict new forms of communication, community, and conscious raising. They suggest that feminists' memes are new "weapons" of feminist cultural critique and models of political agency for doing feminism (Ibid: 3).…”

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Remixing misandry, manspreading, and dick pics: networked feminist humour on Tumblr

Ringrose¹,

Lawrence²

2018

Feminist Media Studies

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In this paper, we explore new forms of networked feminist humour curated on Tumblr. First, we consider the Misandry Mermaid Tumblr by exploring how the site remediates antifeminist discourses of man-hating by deploying a sarcastic discourse of misandry. We argue that the site is plagued, however, by a form of gender binary antagonism. Then, we explore an anti-manspreading site, savingroomforcats, showing how the site challenges hetero-masculine spatial dominance through the humorous insertion of cats into manspreading images. We argue that these posts tend to lack an intersectional awareness of racialised masculinity. Finally, we explore the site critiquemydickpic, which subverts dominant understandings of dick pics as threatening, generating a queer politics of disrupting phallicoriented desire.

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“…As reported by Poynter (2010), Salter (2013), Castells (2015), and Cover (2015), social media can have a significant impact on social movements and it has allowed Saudi women to be heard in the KSA and worldwide (Al-Rasheed 2013; Doumato 2010). Khamis (2014), Rentschler (2015), Clark (2016), and Newsom and Lengel (2012) emphasize the key role Twitter plays in publicizing women's voices and movements. In particular, Twitter has empowered women to express their opinions and surmount gender-based legislation and norms that exclude them from public and political life since it allows "the exercise of agency by women where previously (at least in modern history) no comparable domain has existed" (Samin 2008, p. 207).…”

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“…Their utilization of social media and their public engagement with women's issues have put them at the forefront of change and publicized their issues in ways that were not possible before social media. Twitter, in particular, has been utilized in online movements to raise awareness of issues such as violence and sexual harassment, which are often misrepresented in mainstream media or deemed by many as belonging to the private sphere (Clark 2016;Khamis 2014;Rentschler 2015). For example, in her study of the hashtag #whyIstayed, Clark (2016) has examined the ways in which Twitter users responded to predominant views about domestic violence.…”

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Driving Change on Twitter: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of the Twitter Debates on the Saudi Ban on Women Driving

Altoaimy

2018

Social Sciences

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This paper explores how Twitter has been used in the debate on women's right to drive in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The overarching aim of this investigation is to explain how gender roles and the relationship between the genders are navigated in these debates. For Saudi Arabian women, social media platforms such as Twitter provide a unique space to express opinions and highlight areas of concern in a way that they are unable to in any other public sphere. The exploration of the debate on women's right to drive in the KSA was achieved by collecting a body of tweets in Arabic addressing this topic from the last three months of 2015. Following a corpus-assisted discourse studies approach, this paper analyzes arguments by Twitter users discussing the KSA's ban on women drivers, which may have contributed to women being granted the right to drive and also raised awareness of the restrictions imposed on women.

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#Safetytipsforladies: Feminist Twitter Takedowns of Victim Blaming

Cited by 76 publications

References 7 publications

Reclaiming Stigmatized Narratives: The Networked Disclosure Landscape of #MeToo

Reclaiming Stigmatized Narratives: The Networked Disclosure Landscape of #MeToo

Remixing misandry, manspreading, and dick pics: networked feminist humour on Tumblr

Driving Change on Twitter: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of the Twitter Debates on the Saudi Ban on Women Driving

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