‘I Was Drunk’ Is Not An Excuse For Online Rape Threats
“Why do men keep doing this? Why are so many people—not just harassers themselves by bystanders, too—accepting of the idea that we can be this hostile and threatening online? That it’s OK to view women’s requests to not be targeted, shamed, or harassed by strange men as somehow imposing on men’s freedom? […]
“We should be careful of distinguishing explanation and excuse. Yes, Alchin and similar harassers use the internet to be awful but it’s not because of the internet that they’re threatening women. Wishing rape on feminists didn’t emerge from nowhere. Alchin and similar men don’t just magically convey hateful ideas because their hands touched a keyboard.
“There’s an overarching, larger narrative—both online and offline—which tells men: ‘This is acceptable.'”
‘I was drunk,’ ‘I was joking,’ ‘It’s free speech’: men are making insane excuses for why they harass women online.
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