Book Review: Targeted and Trolled by Rossalyn Warren

A book about the reality that women faces everyday in their lives. Targeted and Trolled is precisely written and portrays the true image of this gender oriented society.

The book highlighted some incidents which happened to some of the renowned women who are raising their voices against sexual harassment and supporting the victims. Abuse and shaming are the very common examples of online harassment which women faces more than men. Most of us would have witnessed these acts on many of the social networking sites.

Often men are not aware that women are sexually abused and shamed on internet. Mostly, online harassment is gender biased. Men are usually harassed and shamed for intellectual abilities where as women are harassed and abused sexually for being an online user.

Often, Minorities are also targeted. Muslim women are mostly trolled for sharing their opinion online and they are usually sexually harassed and abused by male online users from other religions.

Most of the times women are not even aware of the term online harassment. As Rossalyn has stated in her book, that most of the times women think that online harassment is a part of the deal for being an online user. 

“Do no harm, take no shit.” — Wilson

Wilson also puts an emphasis on  women owning their voice is a powerful tool which they must use online.

Kati Heng’s way to spread out the word against harrasment: http://stopthecatcall.tumblr.com

“Rememeber this is your internet, this is your technology. This is your online space you need to reclaim.”  — Nighat Dad

Nighat’s work against cyber bullying:  http://digitalrightsfoundation.pk

It good to know that women all around the globe are fighting in their own ways against online harassment and sexual harassment. Victims are raising their voices and spreading out the word through social media to spread awareness and to support each other.

Katarzyna Babis, an art student in Poland, decided to tackle this issue with simple comics that illustrate the problems with different forms of victim blaming.

I came across this article which focuses on ending the victim blaming.

Read more:  http://www.boredpanda.com/victim-blaming-illustrations-katarzyna-babis/

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This is a must read book. Precise and short, Conveys the message in an effective tone.
Rating: 5/5

Disclaimer: I got a galley of this e-book via publisher and getting a review copy didn’t influence  my opinion of this book.