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If I did rule the world, no one would be allowed to post opinions online about a woman’s appearance without being obliged to post a photograph of themselves in a similar state. So, if the woman is undressed, they’d have to be as well. If she’d just had a baby, they would have had to also. If she’d eaten a burger, had a night on the tiles or spent all morning being vomited on by a child, her critic would have to reveal how their looks held up in those circumstances before commenting.
While the internet has democratised access to information, which is a good thing, it’s also become a powerful platform for the propagation of bigotry, racism, homophobia and misogyny. Never before in modern history have so many people been able to evade responsibility for their own publicly expressed opinions or avoided consequences for the damage they’ve inflicted upon others.
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