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Who’s Up For A Round Of Anti-Feminist Bingo?
Frisky commenters are seriously freaking awesome. But I’ve blogged at a bunch of different sites and have heard some not so nice things — that I’m stupid, immature—even sexist. At least no one has...
View ArticleJay Smooth Calls On Men To Challenge Anti-Feminist Internet Trolls
All feminist blogger Anita Sarkeesian wanted to do was create a new project aimed at examining common tropes in video games through a feminist lens. Sarkeesian, who blogs at FeministFrequency.com, was...
View ArticleBlogger Lindy West Faces Her Internet Trolls
This is Jezebel blogger Lindy West performing at Back Fence PDX, a storytelling series in Portland, Oregon. As you can see, Lindy is fat, and her seven minute-long story is about how the viciousness of...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: I’m On Twitter Strike Until The Men I Know Get Loud
Jen Kirkman is a comedian on “Chelsea Lately” and “After Lately.” This post was reprinted with permission from her Tumblr. I’m on a Twitter strike. I am so sick of the way men on Twitter treat lady...
View Article“My Crazy Obsession” Finally Managed To Freak Me Out With A Crazy Troll Lady
“My wife’s routine starts first thing in the morning when she wakes up, scrolling online looking for trolls,” say the husband of Michelle Kerrins, featured on the latest episode of “My Crazy...
View ArticleInternet Troll Who Called Professor Mary Beard A “Slut” On Twitter Apologizes...
An internet troll apologized for calling Professor Mary Beard, a classicist at Cambridge University in the UK, a “filthy old slut” and other nasty comments — but only after a threat arose to...
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Surprise, Surprise: Internet Trolls Are Actually Sadists
Internet trolls really are complete sadists, which explains so much. A new study, aptly titled “Trolls Just Want To Have Fun,” details the findings. Good to know all the strangers who call us “fat”...
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18 Sincere Questions I Would Like To Ask Internet Trolls
Who amongst us was surprised when the results of a recent survey found that Internet trolls are actually psychopaths and sadists? Canadian researchers applied personality inventories to Internet...
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“I Am The King Of Trolls”: An Actual Troll (We Think) Responds To My 18...
Last week, I crowd-sourced questions from my coworkers and friends and wrote a silly post called “18 Sincere Questions I Would Like To Ask Internet Trolls.” I’ve dealt with trolls and other unsavory...
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Lily Allen Confronts Her Internet Trolls
I liked Lily Allen’s song “URL Badman” to begin with, but I love it now that there’s commenters up on YouTube screaming “misandry” over the new music video. (Of course plenty of women hate on other...
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Jezebel Staff Calls Out Gawker Media For Continually Ignoring Commenter...
The staff of Jezebel.com posted a memo today calling out their employer, Gawker Media, for ignoring the constant harassment they face from trolls in their comments section. The staff describes how...
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Supreme Court To Rule On Online Threats
It’s three months away, but it’s groundbreaking and past due: This December, the Supreme Court will rule on whether online threats are protected by the First Amendment based on whether they qualify as...
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Yes, I Have Emotional Disorders; No, I Won’t Be Ashamed Of It
I’ve said it briefly before, but I want to say it again in more depth: I’m not ashamed of my emotional disorder. In the six months since I started writing for a living, I’ve had a rash of people —...
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UK Troll Sentenced To 18 Weeks In Prison For Rape Threats
Remember last year, when a UK politician was supporting an effort to get Jane Austen put on the 10-pound note and got flooded with rape threats on Twitter? No? I vaguely remember — vaguely, because...
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The US Prison System Exposes Trans* Inmates To Rape
The US prison system neglects the needs of trans* inmates and exposes them to rape. [VICE] Emily Gould writes about why ignoring online trolls isn’t enough. [Buzzfeed] Listen to Lena Dunham talk about...
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Reddit, Why Haven’t You Removed This Pro-Rape Subreddit?
Hey guys, there’s a new baby subreddit called Philosophy of Rape that advocates for raping women. Not just advocates, of course, but gushes over it, calls it “Correction”-with-a-capital-C, says that it...
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Facebook Apologizes To LGBT Community After Realizing One Troll Has Been...
Is anyone else surprised that now that the two-week deadline for “real names” on Facebook is up, Facebook has apologized to the LGBT activists who have been fighting it and said that they’re “taking...
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Brianna Wu Speaks Up About The GamerGate Threats That Chased Her Out Of Her Home
Brianna Wu, the game developer who was chased out of her home by graphic and widely publicized rape and death threats issued by GamerGate supporters, is now speaking up about the incident. In an op-ed...
View ArticleMy New Year’s Resolution: Choose Oultrage Over Outrage
I find it edifying to look up the definitions and etymology of words that represent abstractions. Today it’s “outrage.” It’s being talked about a lot, not least of all because of Slate’s recent...
View ArticleI’m Not Praising Twitter For Wanting To Eradicate Trolls Until They Actually...
Two weeks ago, writer Lindy West appeared on This American Life to talk about internet trolls, confronting one particularly cruel troll of the hundreds who verbally abuse her online, and the torrential...
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