Women turn out to be bloody good at on line stalking and harrassment. I did see some of this on line. Is the Internet revealing the dark side of women as well as men.
Click, Stalk, Destroy is Taylor’s new book and it has the jacket cover of a pacy thriller, featuring a darkly lit glass of wine next to a phone, which in this case was her persecutor’s main weapon. Plot twist: Taylor is also a chartered psychologist who has spent her career researching and consulting on female victims of abuse. At 35, she has written two Sunday Times bestselling books and has become a leading voice for changes to the way the criminal justice system prosecutes male violence.
One Sunday morning in late 2023, Jessica Taylor was at home trying her
best to relax and forget about it all. She had been the victim of a year-long stalking campaign targeting her livelihood, her family and her sanity. Then an email popped up on Taylor’s phone and the sick taste of fear was back. “Are the doors locked?” she whispered in panic.
Yet Click, Stalk, Destroy is not the latest Netflix series. It is a professional attempt to understand a new form of stalking and a lightly dramatised and anonymised rendering of Taylor’s brutal experience as its victim.
And there’s more: for a professional who has spent her career trying to combat male violence, her persecutors were women. The subtitle of the book is Inside the Minds of People Who Stalk Online and women can be experts at inflicting these new kinds of harm.
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