Misogynistic Hate Crimes

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The article ¨Street Harassment of Women Just Became a Hate Crime in this County¨ from the Washington Post by Elahe Izadi explains that prejudice against women now has legislation in Nottinghamshire, England. They are the first to create as well as enforce laws against misogyny. In this case, street harassment, also know as “catcalling.” The FBI is mindful when it comes to protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties. This assures that hate, in general, is not a crime, but laws like these are be enforced because they’re beneficial to females everywhere.
Gender only recently was added to the hate crime definition which means that it was finally seen as a serious problem. Some examples of misogynistic hate crimes are, ¨Street harassment, …show more content…

This means that while this issue was being contradicted, women were being scarred for life. The article explains that, ¨A female BBC reporter covering the 2015 conference was harassed by a man as she reported from outside the event [the Nottinghamshire Safer for Women Conference], (Izadi). This means that issue was happening as it was being discussed.
The issue of misogyny has been a problem for decades. Cornell University and the advocacy group “Hollaback!” directed an international survey and found 90% of women in the U.K. first experienced misogyny when they were younger than 17. This means that misogynistic approaches were directed towards children: young girls.
Nottinghamshire, England wasn’t the only place to outlaw misogyny. The article says that Portugal outlawed verbal sexual abuse. In the United States, many states have hate crime laws that called for additional punishment for offenders who target victims based on race, ethnicity or religion and, in some states, gender as well as gender identity, (Izadi). Belgium criminalized certain kinds of sexual harassment, whether in-person or online, and made it punishable by a year-long prison sentence or by paying a fine. Insults aimed at men are also covered by the Belgian law because women are just as guilty. Men are not the only offenders of gender-based hate

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