57. "btw, anyone using the word "broad" in this day and age..." In response to In response to 0
...most likely tweets like this to women.
the video is even more disturbing than the article ...
that veil of anonymity gives cowards a soapbox to stand on.
>http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/sarah-spain-julie-dicaro-harassing-tweets-video > >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 >
------------------- I wanna go to where the martyrs went the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...