Online Misogyny Quotes

I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it's hard to discern how many people are actually involved.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

If you're fortunate enough not to know, Gamergate is the misogynist hate group of the video game world.

Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.

Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I've had hundreds and hundreds of threats to my life on Twitter's platform.

I troll, I'm trolled.

It's been hard being on the Internet and not being respected by people in Hollywood.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

Trolls online are constantly giving you sexist comments.

Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

Online hate needs to be taken as seriously as offline hate - but it isn't.

The way certain men treat women is influenced by the Internet a lot.

When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of 'shut up' after I say anything. But it's all out of love.

The good and bad thing about online trolling: it's not on the street, and it's not on the street! The good: nothing physical erupts; the bad: there are no brakes to stop it.

To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference.

I think trolling is a sort of art form, a bit of a craft.

The abuse on Twitter has become so commonplace and accepted that people have literally made careers out of it.

The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don't like that in much the same way that if you're walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that's why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there.

It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.