[blogathon] Female Bullying, Internalized Misogyny, and Challenging Cognitive...
This is the seventh post in my SSA blogathon. Don’t forget to donate! I’ve seen a lot of great articles lately about women who don’t like women and don’t have female friends. One starts out: For as...
View ArticleHarassment Is Not An Isolated Incident
The reason it’s so hard to get people to take harassment seriously is because it looks so different from the outside than from the inside. Here’s an example many of us are probably viscerally familiar...
View ArticleMaking the Normal Abnormal
Much of progressive activism focuses on making things that seem weird, abnormal, and wrong to many people seem more ordinary, normal, and acceptable. For instance, activists have tried to show that...
View ArticleOn Shaming People Online “For Their Own Good”
[Content note: online harassment and bullying] Online vigilantism in general is nothing new, but lately I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend of people trying to teach others that they “should’ve known...
View ArticleOnline Bullying and Trauma: What’s At Stake?
[Content note: online bullying/harassment] Since I wrote my last blog post, I’ve been treated to a number of enlightening debates about the issue of online bullying and PTSD. And by “enlightening,” I...
View ArticleYour “Jokes” About Sexist Harassment
[Content note: sexual & online harassment] This was originally a Facebook post I made last night. A lot of people asked me to make it public and shareable because they’ve been looking for the words...
View ArticleWhy Subtle Sexism in Tech Matters
[Content note: sexual harassment, bullying] I wrote a Daily Dot piece about tech sexism. When we think of a “hostile workplace environment,” we often think of the blatant, obvious things—like...
View ArticleWhy Peeple Won’t Save Us From Jerks
I wrote about Peeple again for the Daily Dot, but from a slightly different angle than my other piece. Peeple, a new app for rating people like as if they were restaurants on Yelp, hasprovoked so much...
View ArticleOther People Have It Worse
[CN: bullying, sexual assault] I had a client recently who spent most of his childhood as a target of relentless bullying and physical violence at school. Now, he says, “It’s not that big of a deal. I...
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