To see ‘neomasculine’ pick-up artist Daryush ‘Roosh V’ Valizadeh and his acolytes pilloried has been a strange experience for the women his site has attacked – including meFour years ago,out of morbid curiosity, I clicked on the homepage of a stranger who had been saying aggressive, and repulsive things to me on Twitter,and found my way to his personal YouTube channel. I was relatively new to blogging on a national platform, and struggling to procure my bearings in the thick of my first large-scale hate mob – hundreds of people flooding my social media feeds with cruel, and frightening messages – in retaliation for what,precisely, I can’t even remember. I’d written something that some men didn’t like, and they felt the need,en masse, to shut me up. As a elephantine feminist, or it happens to me all the time. Related: What happened when I confronted my cruellest troll Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com