Following up on Ula Klein’s last contribution, yet another online forum in which women are subject to undue harassment: online dating sites.
It would be ridiculous if a stranger showed you his penis in a bar and didn’t suffer repercussions. So why, these women ask, are online daters allowed to assail each other with visual and written obscenity? [….]
And in this day and age, it’s not like online dating is a fringe activity that women can simply recuse themselves from, she says.
“You can’t go up to people anymore and just flirt with them,” she said. If you’re single, “online dating becomes your only recourse. But it’s sexually hostile, and the predator-prey dynamic seems to be really on fire.”
Find the article at The Atlantic. It includes anecdotes, a few statistics, and some of the efforts women are making to fight back. O, if you just want to laugh until your stomach hurts, read this.
