Tag Archives: Harassment
Black Woman Murdered by Stalker Who Had Been Using Youtube and Facebook To Threaten Her.
Tweet *Trigger Warning* A young woman in Detroit, Asia McGowan, was shot and killed by someone who had been leaving her nasty comments on her Youtube account and also had been stalking her on Facebook. This was someone she knew in real life-it was one of her classmates. This story is really upsetting me, but [...]
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Fox News Producers Stalk and Harass Amanda Terkel.
TweetIn light of Bill O’Reilly’s upcoming speaking gig with the Alexa Foundation, an organization that supports the rights of victims of sexual violence, Amanda Terkel at Think Progress exposed O’Reilly’s victim-blaming past. In the past O’Relly asserted that the rape and murder of a woman was partially her own fault based on what she was [...]
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Listen Up: Bloggers Discuss Online Harassment
Tweet The Center for Emerging Media’s Marc Steiner Show aired a talk with our girl Jill from Feministe, the amazing Latoya from Racialicious and Danielle Citron from the University of Maryland (whose research is on online harassment) to discuss the ways that the blogosphere has been extremely hostile to female bloggers and what can be [...]
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MA Trooper asks speeding woman in labor to prove it
TweetThe lovely Campbell Brown gives us the low-down on a Massachusetts woman and her husband who were pulled over for speeding, given a ticket, and then asked by the state trooper to prove her pregnancy by showing her belly. Embedded video from CNN Video Read transcript here. Nothing gets me more heated than law enforcement [...]
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Woman says she was attacked by misogynistic NYPD officer