To think that anybody who threatens women

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With rape should be killed or at least have to answer for their views in court?

It seems to me that every woman who expresses openly an opinion that can even obliquely be classed as feminist is open to attack in a way men are not. It's time this changed, and any man threatening women, and ultimately trying to silence them, must be stopped.

What a strange thread

I expect the OP is thinking of the rape threats today against Jessica Ennis-Hill or maybe all the ones since Charlie Webster resigned or maybe she is thinking of Mary Beard or or or

Which high profile men have been in the news recently for having scores / hundreds of people threaten them with rape recently then?

Oh I missed the link it's because of Jessica Ennis-Hill.

'Fair enough, my attempt at humour didn't fare well. To be expected, I don't usually try humour any more. '

It didn't fare well because nobody would think you'd be 'joking' when your OP's about someone saying CE should rape JEH.

Something should happen to the twat who wrote it (the tweet said '@RickieLambert07 reading: “Jessica Ennis-Hill is a stupid cunt. Saying she will remove her name if Ched Evens [sic] is signed. I hope he rapes her.”) he can't have thought anyone would mind if he said such a shitty thing, maybe points to his intellectual level?

I mean it goes like this:

OP: Isn't it awful Jessica Ennis Hill being threatened with rape by all these people they should be prosecuted (major paraphrasing there)

Poster: Snoffair what about all the famous men who get threatened with rape you are discriminating against them because you didn't specify them in the OP in which you cite Jessica Ennis Hill I can only assume you mean that famous men who are threatened with rape by all the horrible men shouldn't be protected in law you are bang out of order

Vast majority of MN posters: UM WTF right whatevs

That cover it?

The problem is people make all sorts of threats online without thinking about the consequences, there should be far more prosecutions, people need to learn that making threats of violence isn't acceptable. As for threatening to slap someone, I assumed a certain level of common sense. If I tickled you without your consent I'd technically be committing an assault however I don't think anyone would suggest we should prosecute someone for threatening to tickle someone.

AgentZigZag he wasn't the only one who threatened her with being raped by Ched.

And these are the same people who presumably say Ched isn't a rapist.

It's just downright weird.

That covers it seven if you want to be pedantic

Do men ever get threatened with rape in Twitter for daring to step out of line?? Not that I'm aware of.

I'm not sure what criteria they use to decide which messages are bad enough for the person to be prosecuted, but I don't think there should be 'far more' of them lurker.

I agree some should be hunted down singled out as a lesson to the other trolls/freaks, but I'd rather the minimal cash they have is spent on 'punishing' the people who actually carry the threats through (even though everyone knows it'll just be a slap on the wrist compared to the ongoing shit the victim has to go through).

Like you say SevenZ, the one I copied from the link is only one of tons just on that feed, there has to be a more effective way of changing the thought processes of these freaks.

I think threatening people with extreme violence should have consequences.

I don't see why the gender of the person being threatened, or indeed the gender of the person doing the threatening, should make the slightest difference to what those consequences are.

I think it should make a difference. Threats of rape against women should be treated as a hate crime imo.

I agree skylark, but you can't get away from the fact that male on female violence (and threats of violence) has been a huge, and mostly ignored, problem for a long time now.

It's OK to single out one type of crime and try to find a solution to it, it doesn't necessarily minimize other types of crime.

I just don't think the solution to it is "let's pretend that this type of crime is different and special because a woman is the target". I think a much better solution to it is "this type of crime is just as unacceptable as threatening to beat up another man."

It's really disturbing that men are using threats of rape to try and scare women who they disagree with. I think gender is very relevant in this case. It would not be happening if Jessica Ennis was male would it?

It is different though isn't it? It seems so to me anyway