I’ve been following the story of the harassment and death threats aimed at the author of ‘Creating Passionate Users,’ a blog that I read. I’ve enjoyed the blog, but am obviously not hooked into that part of the blogosphere, since I didn’t even recognize the names mentioned in the post about the harassment (warning: pictures and re-printing of the threats may be disturbing to some).
It made me think about all the stuff I don’t see on the internet, the porn, the vile language, etc. And, understandably, the experience has soured that author’s view of the internet and in a small way made me feel less safe as well.
One of the comments to her post made me think. A male blogger said that he had received similar threats/harassment, but he just let it roll off his back. We can get into a long discussion about our society, gender differences, etc, and why it’s easier for a man to ‘just let it roll off his back’ and not a woman. (and, don’t get me wrong, the guy who left the post was very sympathetic).
But I think part of the problem may be that the guys do tend to just ignore this kind of comment. It isn’t that we should tell these people that they shouldn’t make comments like that about women, they shouldn’t make comments like that about
That’s pretty much my philosophy: women shouldn’t be treated differently, we should all be treated more civilly.
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