Social media criticism is one aspect that encourages gender-based violence. This mainly comes about as verbal abuse and harsh public criticism of social media activities. In recent times, there has been a lot of social media criticism, especially towards women. For example, recently, there was a Facebook page named “men are better than women” in which a lot of disturbing photos and videos are shared. Unfortunately, a lot of these victims report the incidents but the companies do not act accordingly. Social media, therefore, is a platform for activism and protection of the people and not a platform to share hate.
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TIPS TO HANDLE SOCIAL MEDIA CRITICISM
People often face social media criticism every day. A person can therefore use the following tips to handle the situation. Firstly, they should take a time out before responding. This helps a person to formulate a neutral response which could become verbal abuse. Secondly, a person can choose to ignore them. This mostly applies to posts that are rude, and offensive. When ignoring such comments, the trolls looking for attention will stop. Thirdly, and the most applicable tip to gender-based violence is positively acknowledging critics. This is by looking at it in a positive way other than feeling offended and responding. Lastly, avoid arguing because once you start exchanging responses, the argument is likely to become heated and fruitless. These tips are important when handling social media.
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THE CAUSES OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AMONG WOMEN
Most women face the wrath of gender-based violence which arises from various factors. Firstly, there are physical factors such as lack of security within the family, community, and social structure. There is also poverty which is a physical factor that increases women to the exposure of violence as they search for basic needs. Secondly, the social factors that include discriminatory practices like social media criticism. These practices marginalize women thus fail to respect their rights. Thirdly, there are the judicial barriers that arise from the lack of access to justice institutions resulting in a culture of violence.
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