<
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse>
"If you’re anything like my parents, you probably wouldn’t even understand most
of the content that floods my social media, no matter how hard I try to avoid
it.
Here’s a recent example from Instagram: “Do y’all females ever tell ur
homegirls ‘Sis chill you letting too many dudes hit?’” Essentially, that means:
“Women – do you ever tell your girlfriends that they’re whores and need to stop
letting so many guys fuck them?” The reel, posted by a 19-year-old man,
appeared on my Instagram feed without me wanting to see it, or ever interacting
with any other similar content. The comments that followed were pure misogyny.
“Women see body count as a leaderboard and they try to outdo each other,” was
one of them. Translation: all women are competitively promiscuous.
Consider the use of the word “female” in these posts. It is not a neutral term
here, it is a term of abuse. It’s used by teenage boys to degrade us and equate
us to animals. Boys are never described as “males”, but girls are always
“females” – the equivalent of sows or calves, creatures that are less than
human. We’re also “thots” (whores), “community pussy” and “bops”. “Bop” stands
for “been over passed” and is a derogatory term used by boys to refer to a girl
they’ve decided has been “passed around” or had too much sex. Sexual equality
has ceased to exist online. It’s absolutely fine for boys to have sex, but when
girls do, they are called worthless and referred to as objects. “When community
pussy tries to insult me, I just want to beat that bitch up.” That’s a message
I saw on TikTok.
I’m a 15-year-old schoolgirl and like most teenagers I spend a fair portion of
my spare time on social media, often scrolling through short-form videos on
apps such as Instagram or TikTok. All of my friends use those apps, and many
spend multiple hours a day on them. I actively try to avoid online misogyny,
but I am met with it incessantly whenever I open my mainstream social media
apps. It only takes a few minutes before there’s subtle or overt misogyny, such
as comment sections on a girl’s post filled with remarks about her body, videos
made by men or boys captioned with a degrading joke, and even topics such as
domestic violence or rape, trivialised and laughed about."
Via Brad Koehn, Susan **** and Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
