How Misogyny, Narcissism and a Desperate Need for Power Make Men Abuse Women Online
(Conversation) – “Another morning, another bit of casual misogyny & abuse”, ABC journalist Leigh Sales lamented last week after receiving a tweet accusing her of “virtually” performing sexual acts on her 7.30 guests. Sales’s comments draw our attention back to the abuse routinely encountered by women, people of colour and LGBTQ people on social media. Indeed, such online encounters appear to be so routine for journalists such as Sales that they are a mundane occurrence. Of course, the abuse of women and minority groups in high-profile positions is, sadly, not…
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