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This is what online harassment looks like
- guard-of-terra 14y agoThe only way to win a battle with anonymous legion is to be stonger than they ever can. She raised ten times more than she wanted already, so they are anready distressed and uncomfortable. Push some harsh responses on them and they'd break. Note that complaining about harassment is the WRONG response. Complains is exactly what trolls feed on and they absolutely won't show any respect for complainers whatever many articles there would be.
- locopati 14y agois it complaining or is it bearing witness? By outing this kind of behavior, she is spreading awareness of what it means to live with pervasive sexism + bullying. Perhaps, through this openness + honesty, some might reconsider the effects that their words + actions have. Perhaps others might call people on it, both online + in person, when they see it happening. Yes, people have respnded by helping her with her documentary, but things do not end with a gift. Giving money is relatively easy compared to doing something about ones own behavior and the behavior around them.
- rwz 14y agoOh, it's funny to see people trying to prove gamers harass Anita just because she is a woman. Or that many guys just hate women and stuff. This is not true. People harass stupidity. If you do stupid things online, you'll be harassed. And it doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman. What you do matters. People got sick of all this neverending sexism bullshit going on. Most people do not think it is a problem worth mentioning of even is a problem at all.
- EliRivers 14y ago"Oh, it's funny to see people trying to prove gamers harass Anita just because she is a woman." There is a game in which one can simulate punching her in the face, with realistic looking bruising and facial injuries, quite clearly evoking the horrific sub-culture amongst some males that hurting women is entertaining and funny. Pick someone else who did something "stupid" online and see if you can find a game simulating realistic facial injuries on them. You find it funny? I'm not laughing.
- rwz 14y agoI don't see any connection between punching game and being woman. Seriously. And I saw thousands of such games before. Except most of them were about punching males. Well, not all of them featured bruises and injuries though, but it's just a question of quality. I think it's much easier to make a punching game with these features now than several years ago. And here are some examples: http://www.arcadecabin.com/play/punch_the_president.html http://www.arcadecabin.com/play/punch_the_president.html http://www.urban75.com/Punch/gates.html http://www.urban75.com/Punch/gates.html
- EliRivers 14y agoSerious question. Do you genuinely not see the qualitative difference between that kind of cartoony game involving a major public figure, and the game with the images you can see on the original post? In your mind, are they essentially the same thing? Not trying to be nasty; to many, many people they are of completely different intent, but I am aware that some people just cannot sense that kind of thing.
- rwz 14y agoWell, again, I don't see any connection between this game and the fact that Anita is a woman. Yes, it's clearly harassment, but it's NOT women harassment.
- carsongross 14y agoI thought the meme pictures were pretty funny. Sorry.
- WalterSear 14y agoOnline sexism is going nowhere until people start asking >why< other have such hateful thoughts and feelings rather than just serving up the usual diatribe foo-fa-raw of nerds versus angry women.
- OpieCunningham 14y agoAngry women? Right. No one will ask why if they aren't aware of the problem. This is called shining a light on reality. It's how everything gets addressed.
- WalterSear 14y agoNo one is ever asking why. That's not to imply that the transgressors have an excuse for their bad behaviour, just that castigation gets us nowhere, particularly in an pseudo-anonymous environment.