Alarmism Online: What About the Perverts?
by Zen of Writing on February 22, 2007
Emily Nussbaum, in New York Magazine writes about the older generation’s fears of privacy loss, while younger folks take for granted it’s already gone.
Interesting article. She points out that older people invariably ask about the perverts. It is alarmist: On one level, young women blogging, posting videos and photos of themselves, can seem to encourage attention that could get dangerous, but isn’t that the same argument that keeps women at home or in burqas or some variation? There is safety in numbers: if everyone is online, then who is a target of online perverts? If everyone is allowed out of doors unaccompanied, then who is a target of offline perverts? Most violence against women is still perpetrated by their so-called loved ones, anyway.
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