A disturbing trend is spreading across social media: women are being photographed without their knowledge or consent, and their images are being shared online, often during private, vulnerable, or unguarded moments, for mockery, ridicule, or objectification.
Some of these photos are taken in intimate settings, like sleeping at home, while others are snapped in public spaces, without the woman even realizing it. These are not isolated incidents. They are part of a broader culture of surveillance, misogyny, and entitlement that treats women’s bodies as public property.
Worse still, these posts are being normalized. They’re shared, laughed at, and consumed as entertainment, showcasing a collective failure to respect women’s dignity or recognize digital violence as real violence.
This is not “just the internet.” It is harassment. It is exploitation. It is gender-based violence.
We urgently need digital literacy, ethical awareness, and cultural accountability. Every person has a role to play.
Bangladesh Feminist Archives demands:
-Immediate reporting and takedown of non-consensual content.
-No engagement: do not like, comment, or share exploitative posts.
-Education campaigns on consent, digital ethics, and media responsibility.
-Strong legal action against perpetrators and complicit platforms.
-Investment in media literacy that teaches people how to navigate the internet with empathy, ethics, and critical thinking.
Let us not raise a generation that scrolls past abuse. Let us raise a generation that stops it.
We owe it to our communities and to ourselves.
Bangladesh Feminist Archives 