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What shocked her also was how easy it was to come across this content – it didn’t necessitate going into the Dark Web. “I was very aware of the fact that these groups often complain that they’re misrepresented or misunderstood or mischaracterised and I wanted to really make sure that I took the time to get very deeply immersed within the communities to really try and find out for myself,” she says of creating ‘Alex’. Email: carpearte@aol.com. That they have been very much convinced by extremists [of] very misogynistic, violently anti-women points of view,” she explains. Introducing Trends: visualize news in real-time and discover top authors or outlets. Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. Email: carpearte@aol.com. , 400px wide I wanted to understand what the communities were like, how they treated their own, how they would treat me if I was one of their own, rather than somebody they already saw as an adversary.”. Lock. For all of the nastiness she has discovered, Bates has empathy for the reasons why people turn to them. They spend time online discussing, ironically, women, and how awful they are.
Laura Bates 1,280,654 views • 16:06. In her work in schools however, she kept meeting young boys who she says had been the “victims” of such groups. I was on my way home from work one night, and it was one of those hot evenings where the traffic was at a standstill, and as I walked down the road, and the cars crawled next to me, some guys started shouting out of their car windows about my legs, about the things that they'd like to do to me. Men Who Hate Women is a sobering and shocking look at corners of the internet that Bates’ readers will no doubt never have entered willingly. , Access to the comments facility has been disabled for this user, Notify me of followup comments via e-mail, TheJournal.ie supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. Opinion: Politicians may have grounds to impeach Seamus Woulfe but it's a tricky business. Please familiarise yourself with our comments policy, Have your say: a chance for the public to tell policymakers where we go from here.
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The motivation was allegedly his rejection by a woman. to deliver the stories that are important to you. View Photos. Tattoos, books, museums, art, and cats. She says she was “open to having my mind changed” and that she wanted to be fair, to not make assumptions. AKA: laura m smith, laura i smith, laura i bates. Men Who Hate Women enters the spheres where hating – and often deliberately avoiding – women is a way of life for certain males. Voices. Everyday Sexism is published by Simon and Schuster in the UK. Support The Journal The Explainer is a weekly podcast from TheJournal.ie that takes a deeper look at one big news story you need to know about. There are more of us than you think, 'Ugly girl': The negative messages we send to our daughters, Catcalls, cuties, blow up dolls... Australian PM Julia Gillard was, 'Slut dropping' and 'Pimps and Hoes' - the sexual politics of, 'Damaged goods', 'slut' and 'spinster': Sexist labels against women, Institutional sexism is closer to home than you think. This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. “Who had absolutely been victims of what if it were any other kind of group we would call online grooming or radicalisation. Live discussions on Science Week platform will hear what Irish citizens think the ‘new normal’ should look like. Wire service provided by Associated Press. What she found was “really, really shocking”. “Instead of trying to solve them, they focus all of their energy on encouraging hate and violence. No news is bad news “And I think they could do a huge amount more if they wanted to.” She doesn’t believe that the will is there. “And I wanted to try and get deeper than that. “It was a very difficult and upsetting thing to be searching for some material that was specifically about me.”.
“I might not have the answers, but at the moment, the vast majority of people have never even heard of this stuff. Edit Profile. It barely needs to be pointed out that not everyone using the internet has good intentions. I was doing it for a reason and that hopefully it was going to make a difference,” she says. #Open journalism “And these groups double down on exactly those stereotypes.”. She says that the worst part of it “is that a lot of very vulnerable men who end up driven into their clutches in the first place have been desperately damaged by really constricting and toxic societal expectations, outdated stereotypes of masculinity”. Are these powerful multinationals doing enough to fight this behaviour? Since graduating from Cambridge, she has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Grazia, Red magazine and the Huffington Post. Laura Bates. As part of this, people catalogue the incidences of sexism that they have encountered. Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 100,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in 25 countries worldwide. And we certainly can’t solve it at that invisibility, so maybe I can help people to see it. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium.
Review. Laura Bates Assistant Head of Communications at the Museum of London and Governor at The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls. Thomas Dunne Books will publish in the US in early 2016. “It’s really, really hard,” she says of having to read these things. Sites: Our books columnist Ceri Radford on why the dangers are real Laura Bates, 51. “It’s this odd thing where most people have simply never heard of them, but as a woman online, you’re more likely to have come across them. Your contributions will help us continue Laura Bates Social Media Coordinator at Algo Más Marketing. Dr Laura Cahillane and Dr David Kenny say there may be a case for impeachment of the Supreme Court judge but that constutional path is fraught with risk. “There was an argument certainly earlier on that it was best not to give them the oxygen of publicity, which I completely understood and sympathised with,” she says. “I’ve been receiving rape threats, death threats, sometimes a few hundred messages a day from people who are often members of these groups, for the best part of the last decade,” she says. “So, if you look at Trump telling Congress’ women of colour that they need to go home to their own countries, or talking about caravans of Mexican immigrants being full of rapists – what he’s referring to are theories that the far right and misogynistic communities online are obsessed with. The book, says Bates, is a way of letting people know that this behaviour exists. She found that inciting offline violence and encouraging one another to kill and rape women “is completely common and normalised”. Laura is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of thousands of women’s daily experiences of gender imbalance. ‘Most people have simply never heard of them’, “These groups and communities have been on my radar for some time,” Bates tells TheJournal.ie. But for her latest book, she takes a step into the world of online misogyny. She started to realise that the influence of these online groups was spreading, “and that it was actually starting to emerge in the mainstream in ways that weren’t recognisable to most people, because most people don’t know that these groups even exists”. Doing this work meant getting face-to-face with horrifying comments about herself online, such as ones where people wrote about wanting to cause her injury or sexual abuse. In 2013 Laura presented a segment for BBC Inside Out, she addressed Parliament with her experiences of speaking publicly on feminist issues and was named as the 50th most influential left-winger in the UK. THE INTERNET IS a vast place. This irony is discussed by Bates in the book – that often these groups dedicate their time to the one thing they claim they want to avoid. “I think for me it helped knowing that there was a positive purpose to it.
Laura Bates. ‘Alex’ infiltrated groups such as the MGTOW, or Men Going Their Own Way, who don’t want anything to do with women. Laura is also Contributor for Women Under Siege, a New York-based organisation raising awareness of and advocating against sexualised violence against women in conflict zones worldwide. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. British-based author and activist Laura Bates has long been aware of gender inequality in real life, thanks to her work with the Everyday Sexism Project. Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you. That actually the arguments they make about women deserving to be raped and beaten and murdered are extremely common, that they’re very desensitised to that kind of rhetoric,” she says. Find the best way to get in touch with Laura by joining Muck Rack. This week, our diary writer gets out for daily walks with her dog, and balances college work with her 9-5. for sales: text or email to receive a PayPal invoice plus shipping cost 407 622-6873. “I think they pay lip service to it,” says Bates.