2016 10:44 am Chicago-area sportswriters Julie DiCaro and Sarah Spain sat through one of the toughest video segments you’ll ever watch.
The website Just Not Sports asked a group of men to read awful, hate-filled tweets directed at the pair out loud and to DiCaro and Spain’s faces. The men — who weren’t the original writers of the tweets — struggle and eventually apologize on behalf of their gender.
The tweets that these women have to deal with are horrible. A few select, relatively, site-friendly ones that we can print here:
“One of the players should beat you to death with their hockey stick.”
“I hope your dog gets hit by a car, .”
“Hopefully this Julie DiCaro is Bill Cosby’s next victim. That would be classic.”
Put together in the above video, it makes for an incredibly powerful statement to stop harassment of women in sports through social media. Hopefully it does its job.
While many on Twitter, especially fellow sportswriters, were supportive (see the gallery below for examples), some missed the point:
@ClayTravis I'm confident that my mentions are tougher than 99.9% of all people, male or female, receive on Twitter.
@WhitlockJason Twitter isn't remotely a safe space. Everyone who states an opinion from an elevated platform gets mean tweets. #womenandmenblackandwhite
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