I'm white, male, and middle aged. I once shared this point of view. As is, being female, especially if reasonably attractive, is the probably single highest in

I'm white, male, and middle aged. I once shared this point of view. As is, being female, especially if reasonably attractive, is the probably single highest indicator of online harrasment. I've had spam and harrrassment from my social media, my opinions on blog, and it's been low-level background noise and mainly related to opinion. I was perfectly relaxed about trolls, and fed them when I was in the mood. Living with partner who had similar online profiles, blog, not wildly differing opinions, and rather less techie with less traffic was, to say the least, illuminating. Especially as I thought her the more engaging writer - I tend to write too much. Barely a day went by without some jerk making sexual comments or sending a d* pic, then trying to track down all her accounts to fire friend requests in all. Sometimes it felt really creepy. The Middle East and Asian countries seemed especially likely to generate the "nice pic, number please" sex-object garbage. That's in addition to the normal comments, arguments and conversations. No surprise to learn that she was the first to start locking down privacy and losing enthusiasm, and hasn't kept a blog for years now. From what I can gather since, this is common.