I get nowhere near the amount of harassment other folks get, especially black women, and I generally try to treat it like background noise and not think about it too much, but threats of violence have been the background noise of 7 years of writing online.
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I feel like when I talk about it I feed it with attention and then it increases, which is one of the reasons I don't talk about it much, but it's there, always there.
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I wish there were a way to write it off on my taxes as a business expense of being a blogger - "Work productivity lost to online threats & harassment"
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Often when I advise people to break up with abusive or otherwise crappy partners I get long emails from strangers telling me how my post wanted to make them commit suicide and it will be my fault when they do because nobody loves them.
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It's just...background noise. The background noise of writing for so many of us.
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I feel these feelings.

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I bet. How many times have you read something someone sent you and thought "Well, which is it, son? If I'm too fat for you to rape, why do you keep threatening to rape me?" It's so gotdamn depressing.
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I have read speculation about myself that I found completely astonishing. I wrote about this, in my novel. It's part of it. B/c it's a part of my life now.
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That’s appalling. Thank you for keeping on keeping on.
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Yet another reason why incels are terrorists and need to be treated accordingly by counterintelligence.
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*sends supportive thoughts* *is angry that's all I can really do*
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Oh, geez. That's horrible.
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That's horrifying. I'm sorry you've had to deal with that.
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Omg. I'm so sorry you have to go through that
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This is horrible and I hate that you have to cope with it
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I'm sorry. You deserve better.
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Oh wow. So sorry you get this shit. It’s all so horrifying
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I am so sorry this shit has happened to you. :(
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I am so, so sorry.
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