Don't Mansplain me

The internet is a wonderful thing informing us of things we don't know, allowing us to speak to family and share our lives with relatives and friends from all over the world. It also gives us the option to share our opinion with others on current subjects.

The internet can be great, but we all know the internet has its dark side too. A side where people take their opinion and shove it down your throat, hackers who can gain personal information on anyone within minutes and of course the hurtful comments that some people leave. Most people have received a nasty comment in their lives. Most people will ignore the comment, knowing they are better than the person who's written it. But sometimes it can hurt, tearing just a bit of someones personality away and leaving them not wanting them to ever post something on the internet again. Did you know that 23% of women across the EU have reported experiencing online abuse in their lifetime.

I am taking a couple of hours out of my day and finding disrespectful comments that have been directed towards women and analysing them to show just how alive and kicking online abuse is.

Here we have a classic rugby is better than football comment. That's fine we all have our favourite sports. But the wording is demeaning towards women. "played by a bunch of girls". Yes a common (outdated and sexist) phrase that is used around the world but this phrase however does suggest women are the inferior sex. If you agree please just leave now. Bye Bye. Are they gone? Good. Our second commenter is standing up for the "girls" well done. Girls can play rugby and they are just as tough as men. But this third comment. This third comment is the gold (nasty tarnished and gross gold) that made it on to this blog. The first reason clotheslining anyone during a rugby game is a red card offence as it has a high risk of injury to the other player. Male or Female. Being clotheslined by anyone at 220lb's would hurt. Regardless if they are "biologically male", trans male, robotic male or female. So after looking into this comment we can conclude that this person has doesn't have any knowledge on rugby suggesting illegal tackles and just wanted to put something sexist on a random page. Irrelevant comment indeed.

"Up to 70% of cyberstalking victims worldwide are estimated to be women"

I found this insulting comment on a social media page that posts videos and pictures of different skate board tricks. The page posts both male and female skateboarders but if you look in the comments of the posts you usually find something like this. The comment is referring to a video of a young girl doing a kick flip on a skateboard. On this video there are hundreds of "professional skateboarders" telling the girl she isn't doing it correctly or how "sketchy" the trick was. Yep, of course they know best *rolls eyes*. But the worst comment on the page was the one I've shown above. "Panty shot was the ONLY reason that the kick flip was posted..." I have no words. We all now know what their main focus is. Comments like the one I've shown above are just completely unacceptable. Not only have the sexualised something innocent such as a skateboard trick they have also degraded the woman in the post to the point where anyone reading that comment is now looking at the video for a inappropriate reason. Another prime example of an disgusting irrelevant commenting.

World leaders who I won't name have been seen to post sexist comments online - we all know who that is. Speaking of politics did you know that senior female politicians are three times more likely to be insulted on twitter because of their gender and 58% of elected women to parliament have been the target of sexist attacks on social networks.

Below are just two comments that are written by absolute cave men. They may think they are trying to be funny and obviously 125+ people did think it was funny give it a thumbs up. But the truth is sexism is not funny. It's demeaning.

Women witness sexism on social media daily.

80% of women stated that they have been confronted with the phenomenon mansplaining and manterrupting at work.

I have hidden all the profiles that have made these comments because one comment should not define a person. Not all men make these comments but the ones that do need to be put in their place and be told that it's not okay to say these things. It is improving throughout the world but we need to improve these statistics further and take action. Sexism, See it, Name it and stop it!

The website attached is all about sexism and how it can be identified. Please give it a browse.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-channel/stop-sexism

Hope you enjoyed this post! Until next time.