Women deserve a safe space to do their jobs. Before the end of this tournament, TV commentators, social media influencers, and all those who profit from women’s sports need to step up and show they care about women athletes and their fans alike.
Women are the first to be exploited, attacked, and abused online in the most invasive ways possible–and with AI, the threat changes every day. That’s why it’s so vital that we push lawmakers both in Washington, D.C. and the states to protect women from the dark side of AI.
“We cannot silence victims by using courts and lawsuits as a way to retraumatize them, because this is what’s happening” ~ Christian F. Nunes
Outside of enshrining laws that provide survivors with the ultimate protections, we must increase funding and institute community-based resources to support and implement the laws we put into place. We must work to close the systemic gaps that influence domestic violence and IVP.
Gender-based violence, at its core, is about power and control, said Bear Atwood, vice president of the National Organization for Women. With domestic violence specifically, “intimate relationships are the place where there’s the most access for a person to exercise power and control.”