ABSTRACT
The social media landscape is as perilous as it is empowering, if not more so. Social media affordances, after all, allow for international embrace of both the #MeToo movement and the active cyberbullying of women and girls. One transformative, one exploitive, #MeToo and cyberbullying are flip sides of the same coin: systemic misogyny. This chapter explores the relationship between social media and misogyny in global contexts. After a discussion of terms, the chapter looks back at an early opportunity for public interest social media, explores some perils for women users of social media, and asks what the social media landscape could look like were it reimagined and cast in feminist/pro-feminist, anti-racist lights.
