"This is what online harassment looks like"

[Lionessa]

1. But the internet isn't a soap box, and angry words can't intimidate online

in any rational comparison to being "surrounded by an army of 5,000 angry people yelling the worst kind of abuse." Granted we keep trying to make them the same, but they are not.

Let the flames begin, but it does to me also seem like women want to be equal on one hand, but protected from foul ... well foul anything. If one goes into an arena of only men, y'know they aren't exactly kind and gentle in the way they speak to each other, so I understand their confusion about how we want equality, but then can't handle being harangued like they do to each other.

Unless there is some evidence that men posting the same information and opinions are treated more kindly than the women, I can't jump on this idea that a response to a woman should be gentler or more kind than one to a man. I mean just look at all the names Joe Walsh has been called on DU the past week. Does he deserve it, hells yeah, and so would Michele Bachmann or Ann Coulter if they had said the same about Duckworth.