On Wednesday, after Karima Brown received rape threats via WhatsApp when Julius Malema revealed her mobile number on Twitter, many EFF supporters called for her to provide screengrabs and reveal his number.
When Julius Malema failed to protect the contact details of Karima Brown, he opened her up to attack. Forget the politics. Forget that Malema is a leader, and a politician. Forget that Karima Brown is a journalist. And remember in that revealing anyone's contact details without their consent is plain playground tactics. Let’s get to the heart of the matter here. This is a woman. She is a woman, who exists in a society society poisoned by patriarchy.
If you can take a man for his word, you must also take a woman for hers and we must stop participating, regardless of gender , in this perverse notion that the victim needs to explain themselves. Asking this of a woman is no different from a white person saying a black person doesn’t deserve land because they have not worked for it.
Anyway, Lerner took an actor – also a woman- and made the women observe a question and answer exchange. When the actor responded with an incorrect answer, she received a painful electric shock. Afterwards, he asked the observers if the victim was likeable or morally worthy. The women who saw the victim suffer repeated shocks leaned toward derogating her. No different from Twitter yesterday.
Transparency is NOT the name of the game here. It never has been. In fact, transparency is an idea so daunting that it’s the very cause of unreported cases. Transparency is the catalyst that often increases the rate of action and reaction. And in cases like these, transparency or rather the fear thereof, is the chronic symptom that make women ill with the thought of permanent damage. “If I say something, if I talk about this man, if I reveal him, it will only spur him on more.
Sage_Of_Absurd Ain't it too much now.. how long will this targeting of eff go on.. there is a tragedy in Africa today an airline with over 150 human lifes crushed,, why not focus on that area than this senseless attack on EFF..for god sake this is now tiresome
Sage_Of_Absurd They described themselves as white
Sage_Of_Absurd Some of white journalists in South Africa are unqualified, untrained, unskilled, they become journalists either by white privileged or by accident, black journalists are the majority why all those who write garbage about EFF are white journalists