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This Is How Trolls Treat Women On The Internet
A new Twitter hashtag shows just how rough it is being a woman on the Internet.
Online harassment-reporting platform HeartMob asked Twitter users to share their stories using #MyTroll, and the results are truly staggering.
Tiared of being silenced by #OnlineHarassment?
@heartmobber is collecting personal stories today on the hashtag
#mytroll. Share your story.
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) May 11, 2015
Harassers are everywhere. Any woman who has dared to express an opinion or share a story about her life online has probably been criticized and mocked, if not outright threatened. Some women are persistently harassed by specific, incredibly aggressive trolls who make chilling personal threats.
Recently, public figures like actress Ashley Judd and Feminist Frequency founder Anita Sarkeesian have spoken out about how harassment has changed their lives, and the steps they have taken to protect themselves from threats made over the Internet.
Platforms like Twitter have promised to do better at shutting down trolls and responding appropriately to threats, but there’s still a long way to go.
Here’s just a few of the terrible things trolls have said to women:
#MyTroll follows my every move even when he’s not active, to ensure that he can threaten me in the creepiest way possible when he is
— Bailey (@the_author_) May 11, 2015
#MyTroll stalks 8-10 other women too & has set up over 40 accounts under different names to circumvent blocks. Twitter won’t stop him.
— Sarah Faulkner (@sjfaulkner82) May 11, 2015
I reported #mytroll to the FBI, but they didn’t do anything bc he said “I should rape you” not “I will.”
— Emily May (@emilymaynot) May 11, 2015
#MyTroll: I shared my abortion story & this is the #OnlineHarassment I received. This is why people stay silent. pic.twitter.com/r0yNU986TT
— Renee Bracey Sherman (@RBraceySherman) May 11, 2015
One of the men that sent me a death threat eventually apologized when his mom saw his message to me on @TPM t.co/68PzoCPncr #mytroll
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) May 11, 2015
Here are some other nice things #MyTroll(s) have said to me about my body parts and what they’d like to do to them pic.twitter.com/laQAIeZqeb
— Miranda Nelson (@charenton_) May 11, 2015
#mytroll stole my social security number, emails my job, constantly tells me I should be raped while the world says this is the internet
— Lady Rebecca (@ArchivistGeek) May 11, 2015
#mytroll told me I was a slut so my opinion didn’t matter. I told him that he was proving my point. #unslut
— The UnSlut Project (@UnSlutProject) May 11, 2015
#MyTroll found my personal email&said I should’ve killed my daughter&insulted a baby’s looks.I was angry,disgusted&terrified. @heartmobber
— Morgan MenesesSheets (@morgmeneshets) May 11, 2015
#MyTroll told me I’d never marry because I’m a #feminist & my decision to not have kids is a whiny “first world problem.” Yeah, whatever.
— Mandy Shunnarah (@fixedbaroque) May 11, 2015
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