This panel makes the case that online harassment against women must be characterized as gender violence with huge impact to human rights and free speech. No one is safe from online harassment, but there is a huge difference between the way men and women are affected by this problem in online discussions. Men usually have their competence and skills questioned, whereas attacks against women are mostly sexually related. They range from critics to her appearance to even rape threats, and they are widespread. The case of Anita Sarkeesian and Caroline Criado-Perez are only two high-profile examples of the millions of aggression suffer online every day. The cost to society is enormous: they undermine the dignity of women, reduce them to sexualized bodies and delegitimize their voices as citizens. The result is detaching them from online discussions and suppressing their opinions or contributions to society (from bold activism actions to simple tasks as creating YouTube videos about fashion).

1. Why does the internet
hate women?

3. Stop whining, bitch. A good ol’ rape
will make you shut up

4. Fuck you! You should be raped!

10. Almost 8 thousand women participated
Chega de Fiu Fiu online survey

11. 83%do not appreciate catcalls
81%have given up on doing something (like
taking public transportation at night) because
out of fear of street harassment
91%have changed their minds about an outFIt
out of fear of street harassment
85%were groped sometime in their lifetime
The results:

12. Watson’s Law

23. This isn't rape culture. You'll know
rape culture when I'm raping you,
bitch
I have your address and I will
come round to your house and
give u anal and you will love it you
twat lol
Act like a slut, getting treated like a
sluy [sic]
It’s just one of those things you’ll
need to learn to deal with. If you’re
easily offended, then maybe the
music industry isn’t for you

24. Doesn’t the internet
hate everyone?

26. 1 in 5 women will become a victim of
rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.

27. Accounts with feminine usernames received
an average of 100 sexually explicit or
threatening messages a day.
Masculine names
received 3.7.

28. Are trolls crazy people?

29. 26% of Brazilians think
that if women wear
revealing clothes and they
get raped, they deserved it.

31. Get your lubricant ready, bitch,
because I’ll fuck your ass so
hard my balls are going to be
sticking out from your mouth.

33. ~we love the internet~

35. Violence against women
on the internet is not a
technological problem,
it is a social problem.

36. 1. internet = public space
2. online harassment affects ofLLIne
AND online life
3. the same laws that apply to the
offline world should apply on the
online world

37. Violence against woman
on the internet is not a
private problem, but a
public issue.

39. how DO we fight

44. social media is
where we socialize
where we work
WHERE WE FIGHT

45. Be part of the change

46. THANK YOU!
Amanda Luz
(amanda.luz@abril.com.br)
Juliana de Faria
(juliana@thinkolga.com)