Keep on keepin’ on
Cath Elliott
Posted on November 15th, 2011
As I said in last week’s post – Women speak out about online abuse – I’ve been really pleased to see how Helen Lewis Hasteley’s New Statesman piece and others have helped kick start a pretty wide ranging debate about the misogynist abuse a lot of women are being subjected to when they write online. However, a few days ago I started to have a bit of a panic about it all as well. Not an “Omg why on earth did I stick my head above the parapet again, now I’m going to get all kinds of shit from the haters” kind of panic though, but a panic about the potential impact these revelations could be having on women who might be thinking about…
