Goddamnit. I’ve been online since the late 80s and until very recently had an excellent trolldar. Have I become so cynical that I believe these people are being ernest or did I just become naïve? :(

It’s a troll.

Don’t worry, you don’t need Tinder to get yourself murdered by a man. You can meet your murderer in a bar, walking to your car, at school, on vacation... heck, you can even be married to him for years! My point is Tinder is as safe as meeting a man any other way. Don’t let fear keep you from dating.

Huh?

I pretty much hate everything about my naked body due to porn. This idolized fake fantasy perfection has killed me.

Yes, my guess is that the ridiculously easy access to online porn, the very limited range or body features therein, and our miserable non-existent sex education may be partially responsible for this. Teens are going into their first sexual encounters with only the commercially viable bullshit pumped into existence by…

Porn certainly made me feel shitty about the way I looked. We didn’t have the money for me to whine about getting procedures to my parents though (while my amazing parents did save up money to get lazer hair removal after years of seeing me come home in tears from being teased by peers).

If this doesn’t show that in fact, large doses of easily accessed pornography is having an impact (a negative impact) on children I don’t know what does. This makes me so, so sad. And I realized, had I constantly seen these images or had my male peers had this much access to these images I would have been one of those…

Really, there are people threatening to rape Rovell on a daily basis? Link some of those tweets that are worse than what was on this vid. Cause I think you’re full of it.

uh, ok. check all the other comments for why this doesn’t matter in this context. if you want to write an article about your opinions on her ability at her job, feel free, and I will not comment on it, cause I have no opinion/don’t give a fuck.

Rovell gets “vitriol” yes. Rovell gets “vitriol that treats his gender as an automatic disqualifier for basic competence at his job”... I bet not.

Rovell gets “vitriol that includes rape and death threats”... I haven’t exhaustively examined his feed, but I’m willing to bet the answer to that is not only no, but hell no.

We don’t care if you think she’s good at her job or not. That’s not what we’re talking about. It’s not what the video is about, or what this post is about. It’s about the harassment and threats of violence she receives for doing her job. You’re a dude, so you’ve been socialized to think your (irrelevant) opinion is…

You came into a story about two sports reporters making a point about the online harassment they face for doing their jobs just to say one of them sucks at her job.

Please, show me where the rape threats are in Rovell’s mentions? Show me where someone tweets his home address and threatens to murder his family? These women would KILL to only have to deal with the “vitriol” in Rovell’s mentions. And if you seriously can’t comprehend the difference between “delete your account” and…

...do you really think this is the time for that? Or that anyone gives a shit? Did you just watch that video, of people saying the most violent terrible shit to her and think “This would be a good time to say she sucks!!”. What the hell is wrong with you?

I see this all the time with Jessica Mendoza being added as a color analyst for Baseball Tonight. Men talk about how much they “hate that bitch” and complain about how terrible she is. Of course ask them to actually explain how she is terrible and why they hate her and they can’t form any coherent reason. She knows…

Whenever somebody tells me that men get the same level of constant harassment, I usually point them to Sarah Spain’s twitter. I don’t know know how she handles it. Most of the male reporters I follow lose their shit if somebody calls them dumb. They’d explode if they were exposed to a fraction of the bullshit Spain…

there’s already dudes upthread #notallmen-ing

This episode of All Things Considered included a discussion of Lindy West’s confrontation and interview with one of her worst trolls. It’s so painful to hear about what he did to her, but his seemingly-genuine remorse gives me a tiny sparkle of hope that maybe some of these people can get better?.... Sigh. Our society…

I get told all the time that “Twitter isn’t real life.” But it IS real life.