This has been an unpleasant week; by which I mean I have been reminded many times that for women, every week is an unpleasant week. All this came across my screen.<\/p>\n
The dark side of Guardian comments<\/a> The women abandoned to their online abusers<\/a> This horrifying and newly trendy online harasment tactic is ruining careers<\/a> I will come forward<\/a> Tabletop Gaming has a White Male Terrorism Problem<\/a> But at least there was also, in response to that last one:<\/p>\n For good men to see nothing<\/a> This has been an unpleasant week; by which I mean I have been reminded many times that for women, every week is an unpleasant week. All this came across my screen. The dark side of Guardian comments “New research into our own comment threads provides the first quantitative evidence for what female journalists have long … Continue reading The problem with men<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[50,161,149],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political","tag-culture","tag-rape-culure","tag-sexism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-1Yj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7585,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“New research into our own comment threads provides the first quantitative evidence for what female journalists have long suspected: that articles written by women attract more abuse and dismissive trolling than those written by men, regardless of what the article is about.” <\/p>\n
\nOn the internet, if I ever complain and say; \u2018This has happened, I\u2019m sick of it\u2019, people say; \u2018You\u2019re on the internet, what do you expect?\u2019
\n\u201cThere\u2019s no support for women at all, from the police or anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n“Both 8chan and Kotaku in Action regularly crowdsource research into the histories of private individuals who\u2019ve done little more than post about feminism on social media.”<\/p>\n
\nHow a prominent New Zealand music identity conducted a troubling series of relationships with young women, including girls as young as 12.<\/p>\n
\n“I know that if I speak out against the abuses myself and my friends have suffered as a result of our participation in the \u201cfriendly gaming community\u201d I can expect to be silenced with extreme prejudice.”<\/p>\n
\nI have a list of things you can do.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"