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The Capital Gazette shooting shows that we must take online harassment seriously

Last Thursday yet another angry white man went on a deadly shooting rampage. This time, the target was a newspaper, the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, and the shooting left five dead and several others wounded. And like the scores of mass shooters who came before him, Jarrod Ramos had a long and well-documented history of misogyny and violence against women both online and in person. In fact, his story helps to confirm the ways in which online harassment often serves as a precursor to offline violence, and should therefore be taken more seriously.

Last Thursday yet another angry white man went on a deadly shooting rampage. This time, the target was a newspaper, the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, and the shooting left five ...

By Marialexa Kavanaugh • 6 years ago

NFL cheerleaders forced to smile through harassment

A recent discrimination case filed by former New Orleans Saints cheerleader Bailey Davis has opened up a window into the way the NFL objectifies, controls, and exploits its cheerleaders.

By Reina Gattuso • 6 years ago

To fight harassment, we must learn how to break up

“We are taught how to fall in love, but we are never taught how to deal with love ending.”

By Maya Dusenbery • 8 years ago

There was a Huge Increase in Violence and Threats Against Abortion Providers in 2015

According to the National Abortion Federation’s latest annual report on violence directed at abortion providers, there was a dramatic and disturbing spike in attacks, threats, and harassment in the wake of the undercover smear videos targeting Planned Parenthood.

By Reina Gattuso • 8 years ago

The Grope-O-Pedia

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a human being in possession of breasts will be groped the bejesus out of.

By Katherine Cross • 8 years ago

Go Set a Watchman on Fire: Reddit and Ellen Pao’s Resignation

The resignation of Reddit CEO Ellen Pao is terrible news for anyone interested in making the internet less toxic. After a month-long torrent of abuse that fixated on Pao’s race and gender stemming from her reforms to the site, gender advocacy, and the fact that the executive chair of the board fired a popular employee, Victoria Taylor, who managed the site’s well-known Ask Me Anything board, she’s decided to take her leave from the social media site.

By Alexandra Brodsky • 9 years ago

Experiencing online harassment? There’s a form for that.

ICYMI, women face terrible harassment online, and Twitter is no exception. GamerGate is just the most recent and most visible chapter of long-unchecked online abuse against women — particularly trans women, women of color, and women from other marginalized communities — but social media companies have been slow to step in.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Watch: GamerGate gets The Colbert Report treatment

Last night Stephen Colbert sat down with Feminist Frequency creator Anita Sarkeesian to discuss GamerGate and the fact that “feminazis in the gamer world are coming for our balls to snip them off, put them into a little felt purse and take them away, so we have to play your non-violent games.”