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We texted day and night over weeks about novels, single parenting, farming, and writing — proof positive of an extending courtship. But then we met!

What's more dangerous — meeting people on the Internet or meeting people in real life?

I do have one advantage when it comes to meeting people online: I really like dating. I like getting dressed up and going out. I even kind of dig meeting someone new. I know these are aspects of dating other people dread, but I’ve always enjoyed these things. Perhaps this is one explanation for (or else a result of) my sex work past, I dunno. I know that, in the beginning, I thought of dating as an adventure. I didn’t take it too seriously.

[CN: misogynistic online harassment; death threats; mentions of rape and child abuse] You shouldn't have to go to a great imaginative effort to humanize a woman to treat her like a human being. Spoiler alert — she's already a human being without you knowing her or caring for her or seeing her as a long-lost relative or even agreeing with her.

Online friendships are real. Human beings seek connection in various forms, and having a connection with another like-minded human being through the Internet is completely and totally valid.

To fight trolls is to feed them. But to ignore them is to let their provocations go unchallenged.

To fight trolls is to feed them. But to ignore them is to let their provocations go unchallenged.

My daughter just had 75 of her Instagram yoga images pilfered. What is going on? And what can we do about it?