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ELITE STAND UP AGAINST BULLYING & VIOLENCE #No_Bullying

#No_Violence

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Yasmeen Aladdin Abdel-Atey h c
Teaching Assistant, Political Science Department & Research Assistant at s t
Women's Studies Unit a g
We often hear plenty of rhetoric that orbits around n i y l
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woman themselves; and that feminism is merely an n a
ideological framework aimed at destroying the e c
values and foundations of society and at n e l
generalizing the grievances of women, which had This hashtag was able to spread widely throughout o i v
transpired out of thin air… These unfounded theses social media, especially on Twitter, Facebook, and t s n
alongside many other commonly shared notions YouTube, and it provided the opportunity for some i a g
concerning how women view each other and how to share pictures (of women) accompanied by posts a y
we view feminism as well as the stereotypes whose content starts with the claim that they do not a d l
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attached to it have formed the basic background need feminism. This trend considered feminism to a n
against which we judge the ideology. Having such a be a harmful or toxic ideology that promotes hatred o i t a
distorted and malformed basis of misconceptions as of men and marginalizes their traditional roles in n r e
#NO_VIOLENCE
your starting point for your mental image of society, which they on the other hand are strongly t n I
feminism and its essential role in defending attempting to preserve. In addition, this hashtag e h
women’s issues has managed to frame and give rise was able to document the view that discredits the t g n
to the idea: “I am not a feminist and I do not need existence of a so-called "patriarchal system" and i t a

it” amongst women. Such rise is no more evident regards it as a myth or illusion. Additionally, it r b e
and articulated than in the launch of the hashtag questions the credibility of what they see as the l e C
‘#WomenAgainstFeminism’ on Tumblr in 2014- feminist perspective of dividing society into two *
2017 as a reaction to the feminist campaign ‘Who groups one of “the rapist men” and another of “the
needs Feminism?’ launched earlier. victimized women” and many other ideas
associated originally with efforts focused on

destroying feminist thought and its various
struggles.
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