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Facebook Allows Fat-Shaming, Revenge Porn Post On Site

"This however crosses the line in a very very big way, and needs to be stopped immediately"

“What is the biggest whale that you have harpooned?” begins a vile and confronting Facebook post one man shared in a private men’s group. “I went through a tubby phase and landed this 130kg beast.”

The comment is accompanied by a grainy screenshot of a man in bed with the woman—presumably shared without her consent.

News.com.au reports the image was shared with a group of over 14,500 members, although only one man questioned the ethics of sharing it.

NSW man Hayden Brien reported the post to Facebook, but says the online platform indicated it did not “go against any of our specific Community Standards”.

The screenshot from Facebook

Brien slammed Facebook—and the grossly misogynistic post—in a status on his own page on Sunday.

“A guy posted screenshots from a video of him having sex with someone on facebook (yeah I’m “doggin the boys” whoops) & you’d assume it wasn’t taken let alone POSTED with her consent,” Brien wrote.

“I bite my tongue over the daily misogynistic, racist, homophobic and generally uneducated posts in the group because hey, this is a safe space for the working class Aussie males, right?

“This however crosses the line in a very very big way, and needs to be stopped immediately.”

The man said the post had received over 230 likes and 103 comments—but not a single comment defending the girl’s privacy.

Brien continued: “If you wanna share this and make Facebook take notice that’d be great cause I’m sick of every bloke on planet earth thinking we’re some kind of master race and treating women as second rate human beings.”

According to news.com.au, Facebook said it was now investigating the matter.

A recent survey by researchers from RMIT University and Monash University found one in five Australians have been victims of image-based abuse.

This included sexual or nude images taken without consent, the distribution of images without consent and the threat to share images.

And while Brien himself has copped some abuse for speaking out, others have praised has Facebook post, which has been shared over 1000 times.

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