CHVRCHES Singer Lauren Mayberry Responds to Online Rape Threat

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Social media trolling and online threats are so common that it’s impossible to address them all, but one comment took things too far to ignore, and CHVRCHES lead singer Lauren Mayberry took the opportunity to respond and deliver a message.

The comment that triggered the reaction:

Mayberry’s response:

My band is lucky enough to have some of the most awesome, supportive and respectful fans in the world and we are so excited to be in the studio making an album to share with them. Yet, on a daily basis, we still receive communications like this. These people never learn that violence against women is unacceptable. But they also never learn that women will not be shamed and silenced and made to disappear. I am not going anywhere. So bring it on, motherfuckers. Let’s see who blinks first.

A couple of years ago, Mayberry wrote for The Guardian about misogyny, saying: “Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over and accept defeat? I hope not. Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to ‘just deal with.'”