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Anyone (or any company/organization) can find enough crazies out there willing to send death threats (or to just be saying mean things they pretend are actual t

Anyone (or any company/organization) can find enough crazies out there willing to send death threats (or to just be saying mean things they pretend are actual threats, stuff like "I hope you die in a fire") to avoid any uncomfortable interactions with the piblic or their userbase. That said, this was a thing well before the internet. I used to work at a TV and radio station, and the head of security had his office right next to us in IT. Any letters sent to our on air talent were filtered through him first, and a huge amount had stamps on the outside of the envelope saying "This letter was sent from a correctional facility" along with the name of the institution. Lots of letters ranging from creepy to outright threatening. I didn't regularly get to see them so I couldn't give you any hard numbers, but one thing I noticed that made me skeptical of claims that women get harassed/threatened more than men is that our weatherman by himself got about as many creepy letters as most of our female talent combined.

happytoexplain 3y ago
The perception that women are harassed/threatened more is probably differentiated from your experience by a couple factors: 1. It includes people who are not broadcast figures, which is the vast majority of people. It's possible that, in public, in the workplace, and in school, a woman is more likely to be harassed than a man. 2. The nature of harassment/threats against women is probably biased towards the more emotion-provoking (sinister, intimidating, sexual, etc). I.e. the kinds of things that tend to engender more concern, in the sense of how bad it feels to imagine/witness, how likely it is to come to something more, the likelihood of a power imbalance (physical or otherwise), and its long-term effects on the recipient.

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Anyone (or any company/organization) can find enough crazies out there willing to send death threats (or to just be saying mean things they pretend are actual t

by HideousKojima 3y ago

happytoexplain 3y ago
The perception that women are harassed/threatened more is probably differentiated from your experience by a couple factors: 1. It includes people who are not broadcast figures, which is the vast majority of people. It's possible that, in public, in the workplace, and in school, a woman is more likely to be harassed than a man. 2. The nature of harassment/threats against women is probably biased towards the more emotion-provoking (sinister, intimidating, sexual, etc). I.e. the kinds of things that tend to engender more concern, in the sense of how bad it feels to imagine/witness, how likely it is to come to something more, the likelihood of a power imbalance (physical or otherwise), and its long-term effects on the recipient.