VIDEO: Feminists subjected to online abuse fight back

Members of a college feminist group who have been subjected to sustained, vile, and lewd online abuse for almost three years have launched a fightback campaign.

University College Cork’s FemSoc has published a selection of the abuse it has received, which has seen its members branded as male-hating sluts and c**ts, and has vowed to ignore it and continue its campaigning work.

Backed by leading feminists including Mary Crilly of the Cork Sexual Violence Centre, law lecturer Dr Catherine O’Sullivan, as well as UCC’s students’ union, FemSoc hopes its ‘Rise Above It’ campaign will put a human face on the online accounts at the receiving end of the abuse, and encourage other students targeted by similar online abuse to dismiss it and carry on.