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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mollie Goodfellow

The woman highlighting the hypocrisy of shirtless selfies

It can be hard to be a woman online. In recent years, harassing behaviour has become increasingly common – from attacks on female MPs to Gamergate.

One woman is fighting back though – using a Twitter account to highlight the hypocrisy of those who call out women for posting “half-naked” photos.

Lindsey, from the blog Cards Against Harassment, posts tweets that criticise women and what they are wearing - and juxtaposes them with photos showing the individual in their own shirtless selfies.  

One tweet reads: “I am a good Christian man with good Christian values. I do not want to see random half-naked girls on my Twitter feed. Leave. Please”.

She then posts shirtless photos of the same man taken from his own Twitter feed.

Lindsey says Cards Against Harassment also provides women with cards to hand to men if they feel they’re being harassed.

The cards are available online for anyone to download and hand out to men they see harassing women in public.

  

It sparked from a project started in 2014, in which Lindsey wanted to “confront” street harassment in Minneapolis.

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