“Metoo is a terror organization..” A Critical Study of how Testimonial Injustice Operates in Danish Facebook Discourses

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this thesis is to examine online sexism as a phenomenon on Danish news media platforms on Facebook. Research have shown a transgression of gendered violence online that is often produced on social media. Studies concerning Danish discourses and sexism is approached to give an understanding of the extent of online sexism. Limited research exists and the following study will provide insight into the area from a human rights perspective. The portrayals of women in discourses surrounding feminist topics are analyzed while discussing why sexist discourses online is a form of testimonial injustice. The aim is to answer the following research questions: 1. How are women and feminist topics portrayed in discourses on DR Nyheder and TV 2 Nyhederne’s Facebook platforms?; 2. Why are these discourses a form of testimonial injustice and in what ways do they produce and reproduce a domination of men over women? These are answered by employing a theoretical framework with a gendered perspective on testimonial injustice while approaching the analysis with analytical tools of objectification. The primary data is comments from Facebook users that have been collected using a netnographic approach. A content analysis interprets the data and a critical discourse analysis provides a nuanced perspective of the production and reproduction of domination of men over women in Danish discourses and society. The results suggest, that credibility operates as an ideal deeply rooted within Danish ideologies. This silences women through means of epistemic objectification. Keywords: Denmark, Facebook discourse, sexism, ideology, #MeToo, credibility, testimonial injustice, feminism, the nature of women.