“This is not ok. Ever. I don’t care if it’s a ‘joke’.”
Sydney-based DJ Alison Wonderland has more than 214,000 followers on Facebook. She’s signed to a major label, EMI Music Australia, is riding high on the success of her debut electropop/dance album, Run, and recently sold out 3,000 capacity shows across Australia within 24 hours.
In short, she’s usually too busy kicking arse to pay attention to misogynist idots.
But this week, she was targeted by some online abuse so appalling, she chose to call it out.
The abuse began when Instagram user ‘b.coves’ left a comment on one other her photos tagging a friend, ‘r.macks’ and writing: “can we rape her or something please”.
The friend wrote back, tagging in a third friend, ‘jacobm0’ and commenting: “‘I would roofie her’.”
Wonderland, whose real name is Alex Scholler, posted a screenshot of the conversation to her Facebook page, pointing out that it was “not ok”.
“I wouldn’t usually call people out but I feel like this time it is important… this is not ok. Ever. I don’t care if it’s a ‘joke’. Not. Ok,” she wrote.
It was a short statement, but a powerful one. And within minutes, her fans had flooded her page with messages of support.
“I’m glad you decided to speak up about this whole situation,” one commenter wrote.
“You’ve handled this well,” another said.