“I don’t think the ‘just ignore it and it will blow away’ argument is working.”

Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry took to Twitter earlier this week to speak out against backlash received for her band’s recent ‘Leave a Trace’ video. “Dear anyone who thinks misogyny isn’t real. It is and this is what it looks like,” she wrote. Mayberry was invited to the Channel 4 News studio on Thursday to discuss internet trolls and misogyny.

Mayberry revealed the large psychological toll that the abuse has taken on her, and said that whilst Chvrches attract hateful comments from trolls as a result of being in the public eye, “this happens to women all the time anyway, and I hate the idea that young girls who follow our band deal with stuff like that. I don’t want them to feel isolated, I don’t want them to feel like it is just happening to them, because it happens everywhere.”

She conceded that it’s “scary, the idea of lawmakers coming in and sifting through comments and deciding what’s acceptable and what isn’t, and it’s unrealistic to expect companies to do that.” Instead, she says that there needs to be “a shift in the cultural approach to women, and that will take time.”

Watch the full interview below. [via Pitchfork]