NYT slammed for ‘sexist’ Instagram post about viral sucker-punch attacks targeting women
NY Post
The New York Times is under fire for an Instagram post suggesting viral video of women reporting being randomly punched on the streets might be “stoking anxiety” about crime in the Big Apple — a take which dozens of commenters viewed as sexist.
The post shared on the @nytstyle Instagram Thursday afternoon linked to an article about the recent spate of videos from young female TikTokkers sharing similar stories of men punching them in the face on the sidewalk.
“You need to rewrite this whole caption. ‘Men are violently attacking women in NYC,’” one commenter wrote underneath the post, which ran with the headline “Is TikTok Stoking Anxiety About Street Crime in NYC?”
The lengthy caption stated that “high-profile episodes that get a lot of online coverage often have the potential to fuel a misleading impression of how pervasive crime is.”
The snippet also included Mayor Eric Adams’ comments that social media give a distorted picture of the prevalence of random acts of violence in the city.
Readers, however, were quick to accuse the Gray Lady of taking a dismissive and misogynistic view of the incidents, and even gaslighting the assault victims.
