Invisible culture dimension of gender discrimination: Speech cyberbullying against women on Chinese social media
Xiangtang Chen, Y. Zhuge, Jiajing Feng, Liqi Guo · Computational Social Science · 2022
This article examines the root reasons for speech cyberbullying against women in China under the context of the awareness of female independent consciousness and the feminist movement. Analyzing typical cases of speech cyberbullying against women on Chinese social media, we used a combination of historical and critical thinking. In our exploration of the root reasons for speech cyberbullying against women, the male gaze and silenced female, Chinese traditional concepts like guanxi and mianzi, patriarchy, the comparison between individualism and collectivism, and masculinity and feminity are all factors to which we paid close attention. To mitigate the problem of cyberbullying against women, the government should formulate punishments for perpetrators and advocate for women with practical actions on social media.