{"id":125013,"date":"2021-08-10T19:36:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=125013"},"modified":"2021-08-11T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T07:20:21","slug":"misinformation-through-feminist-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/misinformation-through-feminist-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinformation through Feminist Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G9R8RVQTM.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Understand misinformation against women<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> The Internet has empowered society,\u00a0 but also created a new threat of disinformation against women. This needs a detailed analysis as a healthy democracy should empower and protect the entire society.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the misinformation on Gender:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Sexism and online harassment prevent women from taking vocal stands and hinder progress.\u00a0Men are at the centre of this disinformation. Men manufacture such false news and also fall for it.<\/p>\n<p>They also indulge in disinformation to keep propaganda, including political propaganda alive. Such misinformation has been empowered by the arrival of the internet.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Major problems:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Women are not heard and shut down by sexism or threat of violence.<\/li>\n<li>There are many sexist groups like &#8216;sharing is caring&#8217; which indulge in defaming and sexist activities.<\/li>\n<li>UNESCO report pointed that political actors fuel and instigate online violence campaigns against women journalists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Misinformation and Sexism: <\/strong>These two share a symbolic relationship. Misinformation piggybacks on sexism to discredit vocal women, and sexism uses misinformation to reinforce patriarchal norms.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Examples of Feminist movements:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>However, there are examples of some feminist movements, that have strengthened democracy.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Efforts of Savitrabai Phule to bring reforms in modern education in 1800s with her husband Jyotirao Phule (Shudra) support when education was restricted to the elite class<\/li>\n<li>Contribution of gay women lawyers Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, who reformed the LGBTQ movement and won the landmark case in 2018 which decriminalize gay sex<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>Way Forward<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n<p>We need to promote a more democratic society, as a healthy democracy is participatory and promotes gender inclusiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0The Hindu Relevance: Understand misinformation against women Synopsis: The Internet has empowered society,\u00a0 but also created a new threat of disinformation against women. This needs a detailed analysis as a healthy democracy should empower and protect the entire society. About the misinformation on Gender: Sexism and online harassment prevent women from taking vocal stands and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/misinformation-through-feminist-lens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misinformation through Feminist Lens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[8839,8837,212,8174,8838],"class_list":["post-125013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-crimes-against-women","tag-gender-based-discrimination","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-misinformation","tag-women-related-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704901492},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}