Reply #52: YES, absolutely. [View All]

[joshcryer]

I have had people threaten me with murder, I have had people FIND OUT WHERE I LIVE (I'm much more cautious about it these days), come to my house with baseball bats (when I lived in Louisiana) just because I thought they were racist pricks.

Don't diminish the power of women and their ability to protect themselves and push back. The point I was making was that the internet makes it a hell of a lot easier to deal with people (just consider all the people coming at me because I hold an imperfect opinion here). There are a bunch of subcultures that are continually harrased by groups on the internet. Once it gets into real life then you have issues, otherwise you are just part of any group who manages to get the attention (like myself) of groups who feel like harrassing you for whatever reason. That's the internet. No dismissiveness here at all, merely putting the issue into context.