wow. you must be a really sad person. I'm sorry.

The fact that the posters are "not old enough to appreciate how serious the threats are" doesn't change anything. Either the poster is an adult or not, either way the anger isn't personal. How could it be—everyone in this is anonymous except for Ms. Pearce. Either way, the problem is a cultural one. Either the poster…

Then that solves that. Either the poster is an adult (thereby responsible for his subhuman behavior) in which case the humiliation in front of his mother is appropriate, or he's a child, not responsible for his subhuman behavior, in which case, telling his parent about what he's doing on the internet is the most…

You are suggesting that the person who wrote "i'll rape u if i ever see you cunt" was a 13 year old boy?

I thought that too. I think it's made more cut and dry (sadly) because it's just words. Real life sexual harassment or assault is explained away as boyswillbeboysBS. But just saying mean shit online—you can't really write that off as some facet of "normal" desire. It's just plain hatred.

It's about punishment and reckoning. The lacuna at the center of every misogynist's hate is his mother. When you make this outright hate of women collide with his love of his mother...well, it brings things to the surface very painfully.

This is incredibly satisfying. Nothing is more wonderful than the idea of misogynists having to admit their misogyny to the one woman who they think is somehow different. It's a beautiful thing.