Women And Internet Harassment

Danielle Citron featured guest. Amanda Hess writes for Slate, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, ESPN The Magazine and more. These days, that means Amanda Hess is online, by name, a lot. With opinions. Exposure. And what’s come back at her online, from angry men, is fairly-well horrifying. Death threats. Rape threats. Sexual taunting. Threats of dismemberment, beheading. Horror. Now Amanda Hess and others are saying “enough.” What is up with the ugly tide of sexual menace and violent threats toward women on the web? This hour On Point: women and sexual menace on the Internet.

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