Callie, I agree completely with your comment. If you see this reply, I hope I express myself well. My initial reaction seeing the words "it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the internet" is to recoil. This is partly a more general reaction, I think, to "it's so much harder to exist [in space x] as [member of…

Ahaha, some of them are trying to claim to me that "mean" stuff gets said on those sites too. Y'all, it is one thing to have someone call you an asshat for thinking Johnny Football is not the next Tim Tebow, it is entirely another to be responded to with rape threats or rape gifs, and have folks choosing usernames of…

As a woman, if I were to view violent rape scenes of men raping women I would feel offended and scared, because I am a woman. That exact scenario could (and in some cases of commenters, HAS) happen to me. I have the same body parts and social considerations many other women does. This is targeting women, not just…

I almost want to see if there's a revolutionary style feminist 4chan group with time on its hands to go and flood the shit out of one of the more "men-focused" sites like Deadspin or Jalopnik with, say, gay porn or transgender porn or something to make all the hetero-dude-bros uncomfortable. I don't want anyone to…

It would just be nice to have a place to discuss things with folks around the world without having to look at rape porn, quite frankly. Where else do we go, but the internet? There are no safe sites, really. It's such a big discussion medium saying "maybe the internet is just not for you" is like saying, "oh, all…

You wouldn't last five minutes as a woman. Seriously, if you're a man, you have *never been targeted in this way*, you may have seen some nasty stuff and called a name or two, but have you been barraged with it? For months or years? Have you been threatened with rape/had people fantasising about raping you on the…

"as I guy I know..."

Yeah, that's your problem.

You may have seen men getting trolled on other sites. I very much doubt you've seen men bombarded with rape and death threats as a disturbingly large proportion of women have been just for being women online. You are blind and dreaming if you think looking below the line…

I also miss Trollpatrol. I sound like an old, but dammit, things were better here in the old(er) days. A few years ago, when commenters had to, basically, audition and get approved, this shit didn't happen. Becoming a starred commentor actually meant something. The Trollpatrol was respected and On The Case. The…

Because the gifs specifically show women being brutalized. While everyone should be bothered by these gifs (as they are disgusting), I don't understand why it's hard to see why this is a women's issue.

According to RAINN, 9 out of every 10 rape victims are female, and 1 out of 6 women in America have been victim of a rape or rape attempt. There are many women who do not report being raped for various reasons, including secondary trauma from stigma or threats from the rapists themselves, or even families trying to…

Who are these women who are not harmed by internet comments? Are they telling you specifically "I am not harmed on the Internet by comments"? I also don't like getting harassed walking down the damn street - should I stay inside?

Honestly, I just think he doesn't get it. The kind of trolling women's websites get are really different than what happens on the sports or news sites. Yeah, Gawker gets trolls — specifically, they have a huge issue with racist trolls right now — but there is a very concerted and specific effort at harassing women in…

I'm going to go ahead and assume you're not a woman. Hell, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're a white man. (Please do correct me if I'm wrong.)

If you ever need proof that women have a harder time being able to speak their mind on the internet (or anywhere for matter), just ask the guys over at the more male-centric Gawker properties, like Jalopnik or Deadspin, how often they have to deal with this level of vicious harassment.

No. Just no. The "if you can't handle it, leave" is never, ever the correct response on dealing with abuse. Aside from dismissing the concerns of the people bothered, it also quickly results in a race to the bottom for the abuse until no one wants to go there any more, easily offended or not. I've been online since…

I don't understand your point. Because it's a "basic method" of trolling, it's... not something to be concerned about?

People also clearly go out of their way to troll Jez readers BECAUSE we are all presumed to be women. There is always an influx of that shit after, say the shooting at Santa Barbara, where we had posters using burner names of "Elliot Rodger" here saying totally fucked up things to posters. I don't see that happening…

I am not speaking about myself; I don't feel particularly upset by typed, anonymous comments. The fact remains that trolls do target female writers, often personally, and that female writers on the Internet are regularly threatened, harassed and attacked on a personal level in a way men are not. In the past year…

To me, it seems this is really indicative of the way in which it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the Internet — women have to deal with so much shit, and so much of the stuff done to ~make the 'net free for everyone~ doesn't take that fact into account at all. There was an op-ed in the Guardian about that this…

There's a point to Kinja? Because it's failing miserably. Comments around here were 200x better a couple years ago. Old articles popping up make it all too obvious.