> The suggestions are repeated and clear: a woman putting herself out in public talking about her work is begging for harassment. This is not what is being sai

> The suggestions are repeated and clear: a woman putting herself out in public talking about her work is begging for harassment. This is not what is being said. I think you have found a very small number of comments and extrapolated them to take a side on the argument you want to have. And I think in doing so you are confusing the issue and hope of progression. Firstly, what I am seeing said in these comments and in other articles and circles is that harassment is something that happens, something that is worse if you are seen as vulnerable, and many suggesting that more women are seen as more vulnerable than men. As a response to that a lot of people are suggesting that perhaps vulnerable people should use pen names. The response to this is that pen names hamper the point of writing. Nowhere have I seen serious claims that they were "begging for harassment". What I have seen are people who receive hate simply for 'being ginger' in photo's on Reddit. People who are harassed and followed in the street for being obese or mentally ill. People who are teased and chased or excluded for being weaker or slower. People who receive hate for making political comments on Facebook or twitter. I have seen these people have real problems with those that harass them following and abusing them from site to site, stripping them of their self-worth. These are the things I am not OK with. I am also not OK with you marginalising the problems of others (which in this case appears to be any vulnerable person sporting a penis).