Online Misogyny in Bangladesh

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study, focusing on “Do not stand too close to my body,” a Bangladeshi online feminist campaign, sought to understand how men react to women in cyberspace and use Islam to sustain misogyny. Two research inquiries guided the research: Men’s reaction to women and women-related issues, and men’s attempts to use Islam to justify and sustain misogyny online. To answer the research questions, 1,474 Facebook comments were analyzed following a qualitative content analysis method. The findings show that men react to women aggressively in social media and such reactions have two main propensities. One is that men shame and denigrate women, the other that men try to justify their aggression and blame the victimized women for their victimhood. In addition, men use Islam to justify and sustain misogyny: They rebuke women for not being decent enough according to the patriarchic version of Islam, and they defend their patriarchal aggression against women and justify it as an expected outcome of disobeying the Islamic code of conduct. These closely related propensities also suggest a conflictual interrelationship between men and women in social media, where men endeavor to dominate the communication. Identifying a few limitations related to the methodology and findings, this article also suggests some practical applications of the results.

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