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Last week, several women joined a class action lawsuit with the hopes of taking down a prominent revenge porn website. BetaBeat has the scoop:
“Considering the numerous repercussions that keep many victims silent, Ms. Toups’ [one of the members of the class action lawsuit] decision to join the lawsuit under her real name is brave. Many revenge porn victims–including Sarah–are forced to remain anonymous or else face the wrath of vengeful exes who find renewed motivation to post their pictures on porn websites. Because of the intimate nature of the photos, many women are also embarrassed to publicly admit that they were victims, and others are afraid of cyberbullying from the passionate fandoms revenge porn proprietors attract.”
This is a BFD for a couple reasons. One, revenge porn facilitates violence against women. Last month we said “Fuck You” to Hunter Moore for creating such a site with address fields to facilitate stalking. You heard that right – the man is literally publishing people’s addresses to facilitate stalking with impunity. Second, it challenges the completely baffling entitlement to women’s bodies that accompanies the creation and consumption of sites like these.
Check out the full story here. To the women of the class action suit- we are all rooting for you! Let’s get these awful misogynistic sites down for good.
