being photographed and posted on facebook without consent- weird website

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I've come across this very weird phenomenon this week via a friend of mine who was targetted - of people taking non consensual of women eating on the tube and posting them on a website that has 35,000 members !! Very intrusive and weird that people can be encouraged to take secret photos and post them - and of women only. The group Level Up has started a petition asking Facebook to take it down (people have reported it but apparently it doesn't breach their rules)

act.welevelup.org/campaigns/facebook-womens-harassment/

Facebook should be utterly ashamed of themselves for letting this stand. It’s the public shaming of women for not conforming to an extremist misogynist’s version of the feminine mystique.

How dare women be in a public space, at the same time as being comfortable or meeting their own normal human needs, like needing to eat food. WhereDoWeBegin hits the nail on the head.

Quick they are not performing for the male gaze for as long as it takes them to eat a sandwich- so let’s intimidatingly photograph and shame them or use them as wank material for this transgression.

It’s exactly the same problem as the woman-haters quoted in this BBC article have about women putting on their makeup on trains and tubes. It’s all part of the same burden that sexists want to force women to carry. We must be constantly perfect and available as sexual objects for men to appraise 24/7. If women focus on ourselves for even a second, then we are fair game. It seems Facebook agrees with this.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45343836