Restaurant Attack On Women Eating In China Sparks Outrage Over Gender Based Violence
A video shared widely on social media shows nine men punching, kicking and dragging three women in and out of a barbecue restaurant in Tangshan City on Friday night. The incident has sparked outrage across the country as tens of millions of people have expressed frustration on the Internet over the lack of legal protection for women and their anger at patriarchal social norms. Weibo, the Chinese microblogging platform, said in a statement on Saturday that it had blocked 265 accounts for violations, including encouraging “gender confrontation”....