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I think the neologism "cyber-violence" is incredibly loaded terminology. They need to be called out on it. Violence according the dictionary is "behavior invol

• pluma 11y ago
  The problem is that "violence" isn't the subject matter in the first place. The subject is abusive behaviour. Abusive behaviour can involve physical violence but it can also involve things that aren't physical (e.g. threats of violence) or that are physical but not strictly violent (e.g. inappropriate touching). But "cyber-abuse" makes it sound like we're talking about spam and virus attacks, so there's no useful term to slap "cyber" onto and call it a day. Not that that's a good way to name these problems in the first place. "Cyber" bullying is just bullying. "Cyber" harassment is just harassment. Whether you do it face to face in person, remotely via phone or from the other side of the world using the Internet is not a useful distinction. Of course "the other side" (not the actual victims, just those speaking on their behalf or portraying themselves as victims in order to suppress criticism) isn't really helping by crying wolf and spreading the idea that every single utterance in the world suddenly needs trigger warnings and gender neutral (or reverse gendered) language. Sometimes a cigar isn't a rape tool of the patriarchy.