As you might image, I don’t normally link favorably to Laurie Penny pieces, but today in the New Statesman she is pretty much bang on the money. Laurie is taking on the troll who terrorise women online if they dare to give an opinion.
My personal experience of this is fairly small, but it’s horrible, and clear that it’s a way, conscious or unconscious, of locking women out of the debate.
“Whilst hatred and fear of women in traditionally male spaces, whether that be the internet or the Houses of Parliament, is nothing new, the specific, sadistic nature of online sexist and sexual harrassment is unique, and uniquely accepted – and it can change.”
