WaPo:
As women gain visibility in the blogosphere, they are targets of sexual harassment and threats. Men are harassed too, and lack of civility is an abiding problem on the Web. But women, who make up about half the online community, are singled out in more starkly sexually threatening terms...
...women have censored themselves, turned to private forums or closed comments on blogs. Many use gender-neutral pseudonyms. Some just gut it out. But the effect of repeated harassment, bloggers and experts interviewed said, is to make women reluctant to participate online -- undercutting the promise of the Internet as an egalitarian forum.
Demonstrated front and center on this blog. Congratulations, Ed, et all.
Posted by: Ginger Bush | Apr 30, 2007 at 07:40 PM
Ginger's actions in response to comments at this blog (phoning the employers of commenters, refusing to accept apologies from the commenters or to consider that her actions may have been disproportionate) led me ask her to stop commenting here.
She has continued to comment, so I have banned her IP address and will delete any future comments she may be able to post here despite that ban.
No need to comment on this decision. Let's move on.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Apr 30, 2007 at 08:50 PM