3. Tropes vs. Women
Video series
launched in
May 2012
KickStarter
project
Internet
abuse
4. Internet Abuse
• Lack of •Competition
accountability •Escalating
• Encouraging comments,
peers threats, and
insults
Misogynist
Anonymity
comments
Hacking
Serious social
•“Beat the Bitch threats media
Up” game accounts •KickStarter
•Sexually violent emails •Facebook
•Personal harm •YouTube
•Disclosing personal info •Blog
5. Jackson Katz:
“It Takes a Village to Rape a Woman”
Cheerleading Normalizing
sexual misogyny
aggression
Competition
of internet
harassment
Internet culture “glorifies and sexualizes male power and
dominance, and… men’s sexual domination of women
seem[s] normal, routine, expected, even humorous.”
6. Solutions & Responses
Denormalize
gendered
internet
violence
Facilitate face-to-face
conversations about these
issues in schools, homes,
Recognize and other institutions
the harm in
these
everyday
Instead of comments
arguing in the
comments…
7. Where is FemFreq Now?
Tropes vs.
Women brought
in $160,000,
26 times what
she asked for
8. For more information about Anita Sarkeesian:
• YouTube: FeministFrequency
• TEDxWomen: “Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012”
• Blog: feministfrequency.com
