{"id":5528,"date":"2023-08-02T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2023-08-02T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:42:38","slug":"misogyny-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/08\/02\/misogyny-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Misogyny and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-66368714\">BBC News, The fury in Pakistan sparked by a misogynist minister, 2 August 2023<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media elements to this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;&#8221;Some years ago, there would not have been such an outcry, and he would not be required to give any kind of response or explanation,&#8221; she [sociologist Nida Kirmani] says. &#8220;The recent response to Khawaja Asif&#8217;s sexist comments are the culmination of a long and sustained struggle by women&#8217;s rights activists.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She says social media has been an obvious gamechanger, offering women the space to speak up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News, The fury in Pakistan sparked by a misogynist minister, 2 August 2023 Social media elements to this story. &#8220;&#8221;Some years ago, there would not have been such an outcry, and he would not be required to give any kind of response or explanation,&#8221; she [sociologist Nida Kirmani] says. &#8220;The recent response to Khawaja&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,130],"tags":[124,132],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-pakistan-internet","tag-gender","tag-pakistan-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5529,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}