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History of Feminism

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gaspee

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Mon Feb 24, 2014, 01:45 PM Feb 2014

Doxxing Internet babes: “She wanted it” [View all]

Lots of good stuff in here, all fitting in the objectification discussion - including links to other interesting reads.

Doxxing is the Internet’s ultimate form of slut-shaming – and, as this latest case shows, it doesn’t just happen to women who have taken a naked photo of themselves. All it requires is being a woman on the Internet. Whether it’s the outing of an unwitting Olympic volunteer or the doxxing of a woman who dares to anonymously volunteer herself as masturbation material, there is a common theme here and it’s a sense of sexual entitlement. It’s the belief — conscious or not — that women’s bodies, their identities, do not belong to them. It’s the double-edged sword of sexual desirability: You become more of a woman — but less of a human.




http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/doxxing_internet_babes_she_wanted_it/
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