Monday 23 September 2013

  1. Was the Twitter boycott an appropriate response to the online threats prominent women were receiving?
  2. Should Twitter have done more in response to those threats?
  3. Should young women in 2013 take an interest in feminism? Do young women need to 'reclaim' feminism?
  4. Why has the internet been effective in feminist campaigns?
  5. What is your opinion on page 3 of the Sun still featuring a half-naked young woman in 2013?

2. Twitter definitely should have done more in response to the threats due to the fact that people should not be able to send death threats to anyone or send threatening messages to women to scare them. Twitter should not be a place were people are allowed to say ANYTHING as it can be hurtful and can cause offence and harm to a number of people. It also scares people who receives death threats. 

3. Young women in 2013 are free to make their own opinions. Now days, youths are quite independent and are strong minded about their own believes and opinions. They therefore are already strong minded hence why I personally don't think young women need to "reclaim" a title of feminism as they can already speak their own minds. I personally don't think young women need to called themselves feminists due to all women not wanting to be objectified anyway. 

4. The internet has been effective in terms of feminist campaigns due to the large number of people who visit certain websites daily. An example of this can be Social networking websites such as Facebook and/or Twitter. Many people; daily; visit these sorts of websites to talk to one another and find out what others are doing. Furthermore feminists in this case are able to share their opinions online and encourage other women to become feminists too as they are hoping promote feminism to others so other women are more involved. 
Also feminists are able to create groups on social networking sites in order to inform others about upcoming feminist meetings and protests. The internet in General has also been effective in feminist campaigns as it's easy for them to inform a large amount of other feminists about campaigns and easy to get support from others due to the large amount of people on the internet. 

5. The suns page 3 has become a huge controversial debate across many people, especially feminists as it encourages men to look upon women as sex objects and also links in with the male gaze theory. However, as the suns page 3 has been around for a very long time it's seen as a norm for many people too. In comparison to other newspapers, the sun is the most popular paper and when I ask others (men) about the sun, they instantly know about page 3. A lot of men look at the page 3 girls but don't take/objectify women as sex objects however due to a minority of men objectifying women, feminists think it has a link. This may be the case in some ways however society doesn't treat others differently just by pictures or their gender. This is only the case as people are brought up as kids and the way in which they are taught about these sorts of things. 

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