Social media provides a new and constantly evolving space in which gender norms are reinforced and challenged; while many users reflect or exaggerate the gender stereotypes and norms they witness in their offline spaces, others use it to help viewers and readers imagine different ways of being and of interacting with others. [...] By building networks, the movement has generated conversations around GBV and the sexual abuse of children, and has enabled women and girls across the region to feel connected and to challenge perceptions in local and regional contexts. [...] (2019) compared the media reactions in the UK where the protest originated to reactions in Germany, and found much deeper coverage and questioning of women’s marginalisation in science in the UK. [...] 3.3 Strengths and limitations of social media activism for shifting gender norms This section reflects on both the examples presented above and the wider literature on the potential and limitations of social media activism to catalyse shifts in gender norms. [...] Women preferred to remain anonymous ‘due to the risk of victim blaming and the lack of a support system for victims of sexual violence and harassment’ in the country.
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