Equity in the Digital Age: Women and the Internet Unlike things happened in the past time, in a world where there is information overwhelmed, we suppose to live in a more equal situation between men and women. However, in fact, gender inequity is just developed a new form to exist online. Women are still continuing suffering from oppression towards themselves. It’s like the shadow of violence along the way with women. What is more, since the Internet shapes the world more united, it is not a case of a particular culture or society but the whole world that we can see holding against women. One of the most common form is judging women’s bodies on social media through comments of fling abuses or sarcastic remarks. As Collins points out
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As Petra Collins said in her article: “Through this removal, I really felt how strong of a distrust and hate we have towards female bodies. The deletion of my account felt like a physical act, like the public coming at me with a razor, sticking their finger down my throat, forcing me to cover up, forcing me to succumb to society 's image of beauty.” Obviously, people aim at it and open their fire again. With the pressure from the exterior society, some women would start hating their natural bodies, being devoured by those social opinions. Deeply look inside the phenomenon, there is a root we can trace back to have a further understanding. Men and masculinity are always stand on the side of getting praised, which our education accept that as their way to teach the younger generation to be strong and tough saying “act like a man.” With the metaphor of war and advanced arm of atomic bomb, the image of men and masculinity got emphasized by aggressive and tough, while women and femininity are presented as soft and smooth taking advantage of an opportunity. …show more content…
Fortunately, we can still see the resistance, at least different voices given by women rather than stick to bear the unfairness. Firstly, women should get rid of the awareness that they aren’t able to do anything saving themselves from the exteriors’ judgement and criticizing. Charlotte Laws, one of the women who stood out and pull out her weapon for fighting with revenge porn, what she did just like a slap in the face of those men who flattered themselves and thought women should have endured abusing silently. She goes: “I knew there were other disturbing sites and other desperate victims. I began pushing for legislations to protect victims, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level. I testified in Sacramento in favor of SB 255, an anti-revenge porn bill in California; it passed. I am hopeful that a federal law will be introduced soon.” (Laws, Charlotte “One Woman’s Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet” jezebel.com) She tried to protect her daughter using legal means. No matter successful or not, it is time for women to stop being a victim. Besides, education is a long way to go for strengthening the energy for cultivating the value of gender equity. Shaping people’s norm about gender equity needs us to shift our ideology paradigm about men and women’s role in the society, especially in
As Petra Collins said in her article: “Through this removal, I really felt how strong of a distrust and hate we have towards female bodies. The deletion of my account felt like a physical act, like the public coming at me with a razor, sticking their finger down my throat, forcing me to cover up, forcing me to succumb to society 's image of beauty.” Obviously, people aim at it and open their fire again. With the pressure from the exterior society, some women would start hating their natural bodies, being devoured by those social opinions. Deeply look inside the phenomenon, there is a root we can trace back to have a further understanding. Men and masculinity are always stand on the side of getting praised, which our education accept that as their way to teach the younger generation to be strong and tough saying “act like a man.” With the metaphor of war and advanced arm of atomic bomb, the image of men and masculinity got emphasized by aggressive and tough, while women and femininity are presented as soft and smooth taking advantage of an opportunity. …show more content…
Fortunately, we can still see the resistance, at least different voices given by women rather than stick to bear the unfairness. Firstly, women should get rid of the awareness that they aren’t able to do anything saving themselves from the exteriors’ judgement and criticizing. Charlotte Laws, one of the women who stood out and pull out her weapon for fighting with revenge porn, what she did just like a slap in the face of those men who flattered themselves and thought women should have endured abusing silently. She goes: “I knew there were other disturbing sites and other desperate victims. I began pushing for legislations to protect victims, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level. I testified in Sacramento in favor of SB 255, an anti-revenge porn bill in California; it passed. I am hopeful that a federal law will be introduced soon.” (Laws, Charlotte “One Woman’s Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet” jezebel.com) She tried to protect her daughter using legal means. No matter successful or not, it is time for women to stop being a victim. Besides, education is a long way to go for strengthening the energy for cultivating the value of gender equity. Shaping people’s norm about gender equity needs us to shift our ideology paradigm about men and women’s role in the society, especially in