The online harassment women face can be organized with varying levels of severity and for the remanding of this paper I will explain those levels. There will only be three different levels of harassment explained, and therefore the varying levels are rather broad. While I could go into more detail and create many more levels of harassment I will stick wish simply three so this paper does not get too confusing. Along with explaining the different levels of severity of online harassment I will also discuss examples of online harassment and a similar situation in history. The different levels of severity are not definitive and personal responses impact the severity of online harassment. Therefore, what one might call low levels of harassment such
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While pranks calls and insults on instant messaging platforms are less severe they can still cause distress if the frequency of the cyberbullying is high and the individual receiving these message is vulnerable. Women are made to feel uncomfortable and vulnerable not only through prank calls and insults online, but also through mixed-gender conversations online. While there is not a direct name for this act, women are made to feel uncomfortable by men, and occasionally other women, during group conversations. Kramarae and Kramer discuss such a phenomenon in their article "Legal Snarls for Women in Cyberspace," and provide an example where a woman questions the "predominance of male 'voices ' at a professional conference" (19). A man replied in an email and asked "do women on the...network feel excluded? Are they shy? Are they more cautious?...Are they not interested in the role of caring in critical thinking?" (19). The man continued to speak over the women rather than listening to her and her questions. Also the questions the man asks are targeted towards women rather than being targeted towards men and how men speak over women. An example of this is in his first question where he asks if the women 'feel ' excluded, which …show more content…
While the word "moderate" implies that the harassment is not damaging it simply measures the severity of the damage but again it is still damaging. Moderate levels of online harassment can be defined as harassment that directed attacks the victim, includes lewd language, or includes sexual photos or videos. In the study of 1,000 Italian teens they "found that visual forms of cyberbullying behaviors are the most severe acts"(Calussi, Menesini, and Nocentini, 272). While the authors categorized visual forms of cyberbullying such as links to pornsites and sexually explicit photos as the "most severe" I will divulge into worse acts, like doxxing, later on in this paper. Therefore I will consider harassment that directly attacks the victim, includes lewd language, or includes sexual photos or videos as a moderate level of harassment. Megarry discusses the hash tag #mencallmethings and the backlash women faced from using that hash tag in her article "Online Incivility or Sexual Harassment? Conceptualizing Women 's Experience in the Digital Age." Megarry notes that women have "changed their own behavior in order to avoid further harmful experiences" and she also notes that "two talented women...[who] have withdrawn from public" (52) because of online harassment. Women who posted on twitter using the hash tag #mencallmethings received replies such as "fuck that cunt, I would with my fist" (Megarry, 50). It
While pranks calls and insults on instant messaging platforms are less severe they can still cause distress if the frequency of the cyberbullying is high and the individual receiving these message is vulnerable. Women are made to feel uncomfortable and vulnerable not only through prank calls and insults online, but also through mixed-gender conversations online. While there is not a direct name for this act, women are made to feel uncomfortable by men, and occasionally other women, during group conversations. Kramarae and Kramer discuss such a phenomenon in their article "Legal Snarls for Women in Cyberspace," and provide an example where a woman questions the "predominance of male 'voices ' at a professional conference" (19). A man replied in an email and asked "do women on the...network feel excluded? Are they shy? Are they more cautious?...Are they not interested in the role of caring in critical thinking?" (19). The man continued to speak over the women rather than listening to her and her questions. Also the questions the man asks are targeted towards women rather than being targeted towards men and how men speak over women. An example of this is in his first question where he asks if the women 'feel ' excluded, which …show more content…
While the word "moderate" implies that the harassment is not damaging it simply measures the severity of the damage but again it is still damaging. Moderate levels of online harassment can be defined as harassment that directed attacks the victim, includes lewd language, or includes sexual photos or videos. In the study of 1,000 Italian teens they "found that visual forms of cyberbullying behaviors are the most severe acts"(Calussi, Menesini, and Nocentini, 272). While the authors categorized visual forms of cyberbullying such as links to pornsites and sexually explicit photos as the "most severe" I will divulge into worse acts, like doxxing, later on in this paper. Therefore I will consider harassment that directly attacks the victim, includes lewd language, or includes sexual photos or videos as a moderate level of harassment. Megarry discusses the hash tag #mencallmethings and the backlash women faced from using that hash tag in her article "Online Incivility or Sexual Harassment? Conceptualizing Women 's Experience in the Digital Age." Megarry notes that women have "changed their own behavior in order to avoid further harmful experiences" and she also notes that "two talented women...[who] have withdrawn from public" (52) because of online harassment. Women who posted on twitter using the hash tag #mencallmethings received replies such as "fuck that cunt, I would with my fist" (Megarry, 50). It