Rape threat

[7] According to Karla Mantilla, editor of the academic journal Feminist Studies, "Rape and death threats are so common that they are almost the rule rather than the exception when women are trolled or harassed online.

[6]: 174 According to a 2016 study of lawmakers from 39 countries by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, 44.4% of elected female representative had been threatened with rape or violence while in office, and 65.5% reported that they had received "humiliating remarks of a sexual or sexist nature" either "several times" or "often".

In 2018, the Indian Minister for Home Affairs ordered police in Mumbai to pursue legal action in the case of rape threats made via Twitter against the 10-year-old daughter of politician Priyanka Chaturvedi.

[14] Also in 2018, in connection with the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, the offices of a number of US politicians received threats of violence and rape, including that of Dianne Feinstein.

[16] A widespread social media campaign was launched in support of Ghanaian Supreme Court Justice Georgina Theodora Wood following public rape threats against her.

[17] In the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament Jess Phillips has called for an end to anonymity for Twitter users after receiving over 600 rape threats in a single night.

[18] In 2018, Deserae Morin, a Republican who ran for the Vermont House of Representatives, received a letter that called her a "cunt" and said, "First, we will rape you for days.

"[19] In a review of two national studies of college women in the United States, Fisher found that the incidence rate of verbal threats of rape was reported for between 0.01% and 0.48% of respondents.

[6]: 174  In her widely cited 2014 in the Pacific Standard,  Amanda Hess recounted police on two separate occasions dismissing her reports in response to receiving rape threats online.