Debbie Ging

1 month ago | thejournal.ie | Debbie Ging |Saoirse McGarrigle

This article contains references to gender-based violence and includes spoilers relating to Netflix’s new drama, Adolescence. MARGARET ATWOOD ONCE said, ‘Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.’This dystopian maxim becomes a grim reality in Stephen Graham’s and Jack Thorne’s chilling teenage drama Adolescence, one of the most talked about and socially impactful television dramas to reach our screens in years.

Apr 18, 2024 | irishtimes.com | Debbie Ging

In 2015, I started researching an obscure, underground network of online men’s rights groups collectively known as the manosphere. While this disparate ensemble of pickup artists, “incels” and “MGTOWs” (men going their own way) was a seething hotbed of male disaffection and anti-woman sentiment, it was also a collection of predominantly niche subcultures, confined to the margins of the digital world. Almost 10 years later, many of the manosphere’s core ideas have spread into mainstream culture.

Jul 18, 2023 | socialeurope.eu | Debbie Ging |Kirsty Park

Europe needs to address a major factor in the mental-health crisis facing adolescent girls in particular. ‘Social media’ have become rapidly integrated into almost all aspects of human life and social organisation, from product marketing and political communication to health, fitness and dating. Despite their many positive affordances, it is however increasingly clear that women and girls experience online disproportionate and different harms online, compared with boys and men.