STANDING for election has never been a particularly easy endeavour, but for women in Scotland in 2023 – amid a rise of relentless online abuse and…
Standing for election has never been a particularly easy endeavour, but for women in Scotland in 2023 – it’s seldom been harder
We’re often told as women in this space to simply ignore. To not engage. That if we don’t feed them, they will get bored and find another woman to hound – the 2023 strain of victim-blaming. As if harassment is to be expected or is some obscure, alien problem that cannot possibly be tackled. Because god-forbid people be held accountable for their actions.
When I reached out to my party amid the first batch of hellish online abuse I received, I didn’t even get a response. Let alone any concrete advice on how to handle it. Not in a “letting the bullies win” kind of way – but from the completely valid perspective that we are all as human beings entitled to our peace, privacy and quality of life. A life where you don’t have to worry that the anonymous troll who said you should be “given a bullet” is actually that man walking across the street from you. And elected politics robs women of it all.
Call me a conspiracist, but it looks suspiciously to me like patriarchy in action. Almost as if the oppression of women is a man-made , intentional, systemic problem or something. If only we could come up with some solutions.
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