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Ched Evans

Jean Hackett, a radical feminist has used twitter to try and stop Ched Evans from playing football again. She has used twitter to get people to sign petitions to stop Oldham and Sheffield United from signing him. The petitions got hundreds of thousands of signatures from people who believed the same thing. Due to those petitions, and other factors, both clubs chose not to sign him.


Evans and another footballer, was tried at the Crown Court at Caernarfon after being charged of the rape of a 19-year-old woman, "who was deemed too drunk to consent," at a hotel near Rhyl in May 2011. Evans was convicted on 20 April 2012 and was sentenced to five years imprisonment. He was eligible for release after serving half of that sentence. During his incarceration, Evans worked as a painter and decorator in the prison in order to afford a healthy diet. In August 2012, Evans was refused leave to appeal against the conviction by a single Court of Appeal of England and Wales judge and the full court upheld the decision in November. Evans continues to maintain his innocence and in November 2013 recruited a new legal team to attempt to clear his name.
In my opinion, I think there are elements of witch hunt in the Ched Evans case. There were many things that were said and done that may have been a little too public, like Jessica Ennis' comments saying she will want her name to be taken off the stand of Sheffield United if Ched Evans plays for them. The public comment was uncalled for, as it made more people condemn Ched Evans not because of what he did, but because they are fans of Jessica Ennis and take everything she says as gospel.

Caroline Criado-Perez

Caroline Criado-Perez used twitter to protest, the male oriented pictures on money (Notes), as she believed it showed inequality. Mervyn King the Bank of England governor refused her request, but when he was succeeded by Mark Carney, the view went into straight contemplation. She was then asked to come into the Bank of England  and was asked if she would accept Jane Austen on the back of a £10 note.

This got a mixed reception on twitter, as the women on twitter congratulated her, but there were a lot of men giving her abuse and threatening her with comments of rape and death. The comments on twitter that she received was uncalled for and it should not have came to that. However, I don't believe that a women felt that strongly about having a women on some money. For me, there are many things going on in the world, and a women, is caused drama on twitter for a female person to be on money. If it was an ethnic minority who attempted to do that, they would have been shut down, and that question never asked or publicised because it is an ethnic minority.

Emma Barnett

Emma Barnett, is a female journalist for the Telegraph and she among other women journalists are subject to trolling via twitter. This is a serious concern, because women journalist are trolled more than men journalist. The abuse they receive on twitter is normally sexual or threats. There have been a lot of rape tweets, and tweets, about the women's lack of sex life, causing them to be ranting needlessly. 

Emma Barnett, was sent a shocking tweet, saying there was a bomb in her house that will be going off at a certain time, to wreck everything. This caused her to be scared and she ran to the pub.I think tweets like that are very disrespectful, and should not be tolerated, but on the other hand, men get trolled also, in different fields, and the only field women get trolled more is the filed that is talked about, I think this is very biased and misleading.