WhatsApp group of 200 young men created to target woman in her student accommodation, Dáil hears
by waves-of-the-water
WhatsApp group of 200 young men created to target woman in her student accommodation, Dáil hears
by waves-of-the-water
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She has 3/4 tiktoks uploaded about the whole ordeal. Been dealt with very badly and reflects poorly on the university
The pandemic that is the manosphere— another symptom of a broken society and as always, it’s those most vulnerable who suffer from it. Shame on every single one of them, all the love and kindness to the young woman targeted.
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Creepy shit
Disturbing
This should be a matter for the Gardaí first and foremost surely?
There need to be visible certain consequences for this kind of behavior. Create a disincentive.
>On August 25, 2024, she posted a TikTok video saying she was moving into Kilmurry Village and looking to make friends. “Little did I know at the time, someone had made a TikTok about wanting to egg my house and that exact same guy was the one who saw me move into number 58,” she explained.
>As she started settling in, her safety quickly became compromised.
>She recalls how a group of boys started targeting her student home. “On my first day of college, two boys were screaming outside my window at 4:30 in the morning,” she said. “They were chanting a song, and they knew exactly which room was mine,” she shared.
>“I emailed the student accommodations office, and they said there was nothing they could do.”
>Her ordeal worsened when her house was egged, and beans, yoghurt and tomato sauce were smeared on the door handle.
>“The next night, I was woken up at 2am to doorbells ringing for five minutes straight,” she said “I did cry. I can’t lie. People forget that I’m still human, and this was my first time in college.”
>After finding out about a disturbing group chat that emerged, in which 200 boys appeared to target her, Ella said: “It started as a boys’ chat and then turned into a group where they all wanted to target my house,” she said.
>The harassment escalated further when the boys returned multiple times, throwing bottles at her house another day.
>“I genuinely don’t think I slept that night at all because I knew there was going to be lads there,” she said.
>Despite contacting the gardaí, Ella’s ordeal didn’t end. She was eventually forced to email the president of the University of Limerick, stating that she felt unsafe and wanted to be moved. “Within 10 minutes, I was moved out of Kilmurry Village,” she said.
>“It wasn’t until I contacted the President that something was done,” she said.
>After posting about her experience online, Ella was met with further misogynistic and ignorant comments, even when simply sharing her experiences in an effort to bring attention to serious issues.
>One individual wrote, “Sorry Ella I got carried away, it will happen again.” Another added, “I will stop at nothing to hunt down and punish the perpetrators Ella. Any chance of a bit of fun then after?”
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/limerick/news/social-media-star-reveals-her-terrifying-experience-in-limerick-at-hands-of-a-gang-of-boys/a1856688869.html
Watched some of her videos on it. Dealt with so poorly by the college Jesus. And her comment section is riddled with lads having a go at her.
Young men in Ireland have serious issues. Too many of them on a pathway where they think they’ve a god given right to harass women.
Seems really odd. Why were they throwing eggs at her property and chanting outside her window? Why did they target her? Such weirdos.
They need to expel everyone who actively engaged in harrsement. 200 is an insane number. Their needs to be severe consequences.
Fucking men. And I don’t want to hear #notallmen bullshit. If that’s your first reaction to women being harassed take a look at yourself. You don’t have groups of 200 women harassing some lad.
This requires an independent investigation. It’s disgusting.
Shame on UL for doing fuck all on this, not particularly surprising but still embarsssing of them.
Article refers to them as boys. Were these literally local limerick boys or were they college age men? Boggles the mind eitherway
Just having that happen outside your home while you’re inside would be scary enough, but you’d also be terrified coming home at night or even just walking around campus in the evening.
Literal savages
Awful what they did to that innocent woman, speaking of Kilmurry village the quality has gone downhill massively and management have a serious attitude problem if you come with any issue
But but but toxic masculinity isn’t real and we shouldn’t even use that phrase coz it hurts men’s feelings, the poor souls! /s
Social media and the internet has ruined the world.
On one his podcasts, Blindboy talked about toxic masculinity on the Bag of Glue song and how’s had to reckon with that being out in the universe and ultimately grown to understand he was a product of his environment at the time. I remember being a teenager in the 90s and there’s no denying there was casual misogyny, fat shaming, homophobia and even some racism thrown around by a lot of teenage boys.
I’ve got mates now with teenagers of their own and we’ve talked about how the 20+ years of progress since we were kids seems to have disintegrated since the pandemic. So many teens have missed out on critical social development during formative years and social media has validated their feelings of rejection and isolation. The anonymity of the internet has then made it easier for them to lash out and target people with bullying. It looks like incel culture in the post-Covid era is going to amplify the challenges of educating young boys to be better.
Ultimately, it seems this can only be solved with a lot of thoughtful, long-term policy changes around education and technology, especially social media, but also how communities work together to create safe environments for children to socialise.
We need to identify all perpetrators. If you were an employer would you want to hire them? Know I wouldn’t. I want them to be in hell.
And you just knowwwwww they are mostly Irish otherwise the media would be having a field day
Obviously don’t condone it but I wonder what she did to get such a reaction?
I’m reminded a bit of a video I saw a while back of a Spanish male student dorm who choreographed their whole building being at the window and shouting aggressively mysogonistic shit at the women’s dorm across the way.
Just horrendous groupthink behavior without questioning it at all wtf is wrong with people. Young men lack decent role models nowadays otherwise they’d know this is unacceptable. Are men sitting down with their sons and actually talking to them about this stuff?
It boggles my mind to think of the effort that has to go into creating a WhatsApp group consisting of 200 men to target just one young woman. Or maybe there’s not much effort involved, and that sums up the problem we’ll be dealing with in the years to come.
I absolutely fucking hate WhatsApp. I thought the worst thing it caused was my workplace being able to invade my ‘personal time’ in a ‘casual’ way, but I was obviously wrong. If we’re going to put some hard legislation on social media in order to protect people, this and TikTok need to be top targets, followed by X and YouTube.
On these specific men, I think society as a whole needs to look in the mirror and not just the parents. We’ve been fucking dogwalking the next generation into these problems, as they grew up watching not just their parents but people on public transport buried in their phones. Society obviously gave these young people, boys and girls, the impression that whatever their elders were glued to on their phones, must have been the be all and end all of life. Fucking sickening and we won’t get anywhere if we just say ah sure the parents, they must have been shite. And I say that as a childless person. It absolutely takes a community to raise kids right.
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