Woman Documents a Decade of #Online #Harrassment on #Instagram
Social media sites have always been a stage for social experiments. Equality-driven women have been known to use digital platforms to challenge topics such as cat-calling, body shaming and female censorship. One ex-New Yorker is pushing the boundaries again by publishing every abusive, harassing and sexually-motivated message she has received online in the past 10 years.
Mia Matsumiya, who accrued a steady social media following in her time as a blogger and band member in the years 2003-2013, charted all of the predatory messages she received. She has decided to debut them on a dedicated Instagram account, @perv_magnet, in order to show the darker, meaner side of social networking.
The account already has a whopping 46.7k followers, and users everywhere are giving their opinions, both in favour and in disagreement with her decision to post. Some are even sending in their own examples of online harassment to show how big the problem can really be. Below are just a few of the endless examples Mia has uploaded. We couldn't show a great number of them due to their graphic content.
"Personally, I don’t know any woman who hasn't been the recipient of creepy behaviour. It’s unacceptable and so depressingly rampant. I want my account to be a place where women can commiserate and men to just learn what women can experience online," she told Dazed.
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