‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogyny on Twitter via #NotAllMen

IF 2.3 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100596
Lucy Jones, Małgorzata Chałupnik, Jai Mackenzie, Louise Mullany
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This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with a qualitative analysis of #NotAllMen users’ discursive strategies. This particular iteration of #NotAllMen followed the disappearance and subsequent rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a 33 year old white woman who was abducted from a street in London, UK, whilst walking home. Following a keyword analysis (Scott 1997) to survey a dataset of 18,701 tweets containing the hashtag #NotAllMen, we identify salient themes in a sub-set of keyword concordances, and produce a detailed qualitative analysis of the strategies deployed in ten randomly sampled tweets. Despite #NotAllMen initally being used as a statement of protest against supposedly unfair accusations levelled at ‘all’ men, our analysis illustrates the use of resistant and empowering strategies which challenge the misogyny of this message, re-framing the hashtag and thus acting as a form of resistance to its original message: that not all men enagage in gender-based violence. We argue that this points to the strategic use of social media to challenge harmful rhetoric, whereby users exploit the affordances of hashtags. Twitter users engaged in strategies including resistance, opposition, and polarity to the hashtag, evidenced through the linguistic use of expletives, insults, and direct address, most often emerging through metadiscussion of the #NotAllMen hashtag itself; this works as a form of collective counter-protest through hashtag reframing. The hashtag reframing operates as a tool to show how those using the hashtag to focus on the defence of men, rather than critiquing the sociocultural dominance of misogynistic behaviour, ignored the fear experienced by all women and girls of being victims of gender-based violence, rape and murder.

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“STFU,开始听听我们有多害怕”:在推特上通过#NotAllMen抵制厌女症
本文关注的是2021年3月微博平台推特上抵制厌女症的策略,当时标签#NotAllMen成为热门话题。我们采用批判女权主义的方法,将语料库语言学与#NotAllMen用户话语策略的定性分析相结合。这一特殊的“不是所有男人”事件是在33岁的白人女性莎拉·埃弗拉德失踪后被强奸和谋杀之后发生的,她在英国伦敦的一条街上被绑架,当时她正在回家的路上。在对包含#NotAllMen标签的18,701条推文数据集进行关键字分析(Scott 1997)之后,我们在关键字一致性的子集中确定了突出主题,并对10条随机抽样推文中部署的策略进行了详细的定性分析。尽管#NotAllMen最初是用来抗议所谓针对“所有”男性的不公平指控的声明,但我们的分析表明,人们使用了抵抗和赋权策略,挑战了这一信息的厌女性,重新构建了标签,从而成为一种抵抗其原始信息的形式:并非所有男性都参与基于性别的暴力。我们认为,这表明了对社交媒体的战略性使用,以挑战有害的言论,用户利用标签的功能。推特用户采取的策略包括抵制、反对和两极分化,通过语言上使用咒骂、侮辱和直接称呼来证明,最常见的是通过#NotAllMen标签本身的元讨论出现;这是一种通过标签重构的集体反抗议形式。标签重构是一种工具,它显示了那些使用标签的人是如何专注于为男性辩护,而不是批评厌女行为在社会文化中的主导地位,忽视了所有妇女和女孩成为基于性别的暴力、强奸和谋杀受害者的恐惧。
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