Stop online abuse against women!
We at The Troll Catcher believe that internet trolls are damaging. When directed towards women they reinforce the damaging social norms such that occasion examples of #everydaysexism, which in turn facilitate the sort of societies in which:

- 85,000 women are raped on average in England and Wales every year
- 2 women are killed every week by their partners
- Over 400,000 women are sexually assaulted each year
- 1 in 5 women (aged 16 - 59) will have experienced sexual abuse

Discussion about what to do about these statistics revolve around issues of policy, law, policing. However, none of these address the root of the problem, attitudes need to change from the bottom up towards sexism, and the normalisation of social phenomena which perpetuate damaging gender stereotypes, be it lad culture and sexist 'banter', page 3, internet trolling...

This is why we have set up the troll catching campaign, because it is not simply enough to ignore trolls, currently the best option in not letting them 'win'. If you feel angry about a comment that you have read, report it here, catch the troll, and donate to The Troll Sanctuary. All proceeds will go to Women's Aid, the key national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children.

If you see the comment on Twitter, reply to it with #trollcatcher @ToCatchaTroll, it will be streamed to our live feed on our blog. If you find it elsewhere on the internet, post it to our Facebook Page, or leave a comment after your donation to The Troll Catcher Fund. Let the trolls will know we have our eye on them!

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