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0 pointsminikites11y ago0 comments

So when prominent women receive specific death threats (see links below), they're just supposed to delete them? I don't understand why you think this isn't relevant; you said "just grow a thick skin" and I'm attempting to show why it's much more complicated than that.

https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/506307716558495744

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...

>But disappear is exactly what she did next. Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, a well-known provocateur, hacker, and anti-Semite, circulated her home address and Social Security number online. He also made false statements about her being a battered wife and a former prostitute. Not only did Sierra find herself a target for identity theft, but all the people who had threatened to brutally rape and kill her now knew where she lived.

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yummyfajitas11y ago

I agree that for serious threats of violence, contacting the police or buying a gun is the correct response. For personal attacks/etc, including ones that "attack your core identity" (whatever that means), I do believe that a thick skin is the right answer. I was implicitly (though not explicitly) describing the latter situation.

You've provided no argument why that isn't the case apart from "won't someone think of the women" (ala Helen Lovejoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg ).

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