Barbie doll syndrome a slow motion hate crime is what a call a male (although it could be a female and it could be a "group") that harass a female because she "doesn't know her place -- meaning outspoken and in America that is a right to speak up an out or she won't be some deluded man's barbie doll and slow motion hate crime means for this particular type of crime means the harassment which can indeed lead to murder starts with verbal harassment, intimidation.... physical and small as a man bumping in to you in front of the mail boxes and yelling at you although he purposely bumps in to you.
The are all different types of violence towards women and the verbal put downs and treatment are an accepted way to devalue women and girls and therefor makes it easier to harm them.
When I read The New York Post describe a woman they use the word "sexpot" and when I read that I think that kind of treatment encourages rape, violence towards women because the author is saying this woman is sexual which every male and female is in any species but The New York Post is throwing some kind of judgement and this kind of false judgement and sexual prejudice is the kind of "devaluation" that men that are violent towards women use.
Male abusers tend to mostly blame their victims and there seems to be a lot of undercurrent that supports this misogynistic behavior. It starts with words and subtle to not so subtle treatment and mostly society ignores this behavior until there is a dead body.
The treatment of girls and women has to change and