Aram Zucker-Scharff

“If it was adolescent then, more mean-spirited fun than outright malice, it is now a frighteningly adult enterprise where the joke is lost somewhere amid the sexual harassment and death threats. What began as the occasional doxxing of a Tumblr user or…

“”The more I’ve looked at the details of the threats and the insults that women are on the receiving end of, the more some of them seem to fit into the old patterns of prejudice and assumption that I have been talking about […] It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it—it’s the fact that you are saying it.””

– Mary Beard: The troll slayer.

“The internet is just a series of tubes, connecting us to miserable assholes.”

– Say hello to men who hate NSA spying but blame women for being spied on.

Trolls drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house to prove misogyny doesn’t exist:

Earlier this week, feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian posted the latest in a series of crowdfunded videos called Tropes vs. Women, devoted to aggregating and analyzing games that portray women as…

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