Social Media, Where Sports Fans Congregate and Misogyny Runs Amok – The New York Times

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Social Media, Where Sports Fans Congregate and Misogyny Runs Amok

Two sports journalists decided to publicly address the vile messages they receive on social media, comments like “please kill yourself I will provide the bleach.”

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/sports/more-than-mean-women-journalists-julie-dicaro-sarah-spain.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

The hatred that arrives rapid-fire into their social media accounts is so personal and acidic that it could sear through even the thickest skin.

Messages from men who said they wanted them dead. Or raped. Or beaten by their boyfriends.