Misogynist
Perspectives On Misogynist Trolling
If you're a woman who writes about, well, pretty much anything online, there's a good chance you've been told in a comments section how stupid/fat/feminazi/ugly/insecure/overly sensitive/ [insert insult here] you are. Trolling and bullying goes with the territory of being a female or gender variant individual who deigns to have an opinion online. Trolling is so common, in fact, that it's easy to dismiss it as "just part of the job."
But we can all agree that no job should involve persistent—and potentially dangerous—harassment.
As GamerGate has made clear, online abuse can quickly escalate into physical threat, and coordinated campaigns of violence have traumatized and silenced countless women writing the very things we need to hear most.
We asked writers, both female and male, to weigh in on Internet misogyny, its effects on society, and what we can all do about it.
Here's what they had to say.
Picture the most heinous lies anyone could tell about you, but done publicly, in a way that will never disappear.
In 1967, Valerie Solanas published The SCUM Manifesto—SCUM being an acronym for the “Society for Cutting Up Men.” Now we have SCUM-T.
Freedom of speech always comes at a price—and that price becomes steeper the more marginalized you are.