I’m really trying to not victim blame, but the critics will take it as that anyway so whatever. But this is why I hated when the Democratic Party announced the new gender neutral language rules for the House in 2021. Women need to talk about the issues that impact them more than men from reproductive justice, childcare issues and online abuse.
Last week’s attack targeting Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at her home is highlighting the real-world risk of violence stemming from the online vitriol targeting women in politics.
The online abuse of women running for office, especially those of color, is more likely to be gendered, personal and invoke sexual violence than their male peers, research shows.
Although misogynistic attacks are not new to politics, experts say the rise of social media and its secretive algorithms are increasing the threat level facing women in the public arena, in a way that could dissuade women from running for office.
“Any political violence is bad. So it’s not as if we should care more about what is targeted to men versus women. But what we should pay attention to is the way that gender is a factor in that targeting,” said Kristina Wilfore, co-founder of the group #ShePersisted, which researches gendered disinformation and online abuse.
On Friday, Pelosi’s San Francisco home was allegedly broken into by David DePape, who told police he wanted to break the speaker’s knee caps, and was carrying zip ties, a roll of tape and a hammer, according to the affidavit released by the Department of Justice on Monday.
The speaker was away in Washington, D.C., but her husband, Paul Pelosi was at the residence and suffered serious injuries after being struck by a hammer.
Shaunna Thomas, co-founder and executive director of the feminist group UltraViolet, said the attack “wasn’t a random or isolated act of violence” but rather the result of years of right-wing media spreading a narrative “demonizing” the speaker with “violent and misogynistic rhetoric to galvanize their base.”
“What’s worse is that social media platforms have allowed these attacks to metastasize online and create an echo chamber that both radicalizes its consumers and desensitizes them to violence,” Thomas said in a statement.
Men running for office are not immune to online abuse, but the attacks are far less likely to target their gender, according to a report published by the Center for Technology and Democracy last week. The report analyzed data relating to tweets targeting candidates running for Congress in the 2020 election.
Women of color were more likely than any other group to be subject to misogynistic and racist content, including white women and men of color, the report found.
Women of color also faced the highest percentage of tweets targeting them that combined disinformation and abuse, according to the report. Those types of posts combined the spread of false narratives, for example dismissing the validity of mail-in ballots, with abusive language.
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“Democrats have crafted a package of unprecedented, bold reforms, which will make the House more accountable, transparent and effective in our work to meet the needs of the American people. These future-focused proposals reflect our priorities as a Caucus and as a Country – including crushing the coronavirus, addressing economic disparity, combating the climate crisis, advancing inclusion, and promoting integrity in government,” said Pelosi, who was reelected this past Sunday, in a statement.
In addition to permanently establishing an Office of Diversity and Inclusion and other diversity measures, the proposed package would “honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral.” Previously, Congress operated under a binary rule that “words importing one gender include the other as well.”
With a record number of LGBTQ+ lawmakers joining the new Congress, the latest rules acknowledge a spectrum of gender identities as well as same-sex relationships. Still, there are no nonbinary representatives in either the House or the Senate, and the nation’s first openly nonbinary lawmaker was elected just last year. “
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Well, since I am making an exception today and posting more obviously political stuff -- and then there is this:
Monetizing Misogyny, the study released this week by #ShePersisted, is the result of more than two years of research into the patterns and motives of gendered disinformation in several countries. It provides new insights into this question as well as a clear answer: the problem lies less in the misogyny per se than in its weaponisation by dark actors – and monetisation by digital platforms.
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Cheers to the architects of tomorrow, the champions of today, and the unstoppable force of women.
Happy women's day to all the graceful Women out there..
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