Petition Facebook To Remove Material That Promotes Rape Culture

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OK, this should probably go in Activism, but this section gets more traffic. A friend linked an article which focused on the "You Know She's Playing Hard To Get When You're Chasing Her Down An Alleyway" page on facebook, the fact it still stands, and the fact the media have ignored plenty of complaints about the page. The article can be found here. About halfway down the article, it details this petition that asks Facebook to remove material promoting rape culture and addresses the fact that Facebook has no option for users to report sexual violence.

Anyways, just thought I'd draw your attention to it. Now off to send the link to a few friends... Every signature and letter to your local MP helps. I'll be composing my letter to my local MP tomorrow.

Nope, it's still there as "chasing her down an alleyway".

Can you sincereley not see how this matters?

Try reading this

Do you think there should be two Pages supporting or 'liking' someone who has genitally mutilated their partner?

No, I don't. I honestly don't. Sorry, kind of skim reading at the moment.

Of course there are other things to worry about. Most of us can worry about more than one thing at a time luckily though .

Joking about abusing or assaulting women, is a form of hate speech, and it normalizes male violence. We are so used to this sort of thing that it doesn't even register on some people's radar - which is pretty disgusting when you think about it.

'But I was only joking' is an age old line that has been used by all sorts to discriminate against others, degrade them and insidiously communicate that they belong to a lower status group.

what about when Sharon osbourne was joking about that man's penis getting cut off? its hatespeech surely

here's a group called TheWatchers on fb which reports offensive fb pages to get them taken down.
www.facebook.com/groups/thewatcherz/
I found it on the I bet we can find 1,000,000 proud feminists on facebook page. (948 and counting)