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Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry has spoken out about the horrific abuse she gets online
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LAUREN MAYBERRY, singer with Scottish band Chvrches, has spoken out about the abuse and rape threats she receives daily from online trolls.
Mayberry has been vocal about trolls in the past – in 2013, she wrote an essay about it for The Guardian, in which she railed against the expectations that women should stay silent about online threats.
“Why should women ‘deal’ with this?” she wrote. “Do I need to accept that it’s OK for people to make comments like this, because that’s how women in my position are spoken to?”
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And she has stayed true to her word. Today, Mayberry posted a screengrab of a particularly violent threat, and wrote:
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