Yeah but do you get it all day, every day? Why do you get it? Are male sports writers really getting the same troll responses as much as the female writers?

Yeah, they can ignore the comments and try their best to not let it get to them but why are we ok with people saying these awful things in the first place? It's still not exactly "right" but people saying means things to an anonymous screenname on a message board is different than saying it to a person's identifiable Twitter handle, even if they are both online. They are using it for their job. Not goofing off on a message board.

I know this conversation will probably go nowhere on here. There will be more women hate spewed but whatever, I've said some of my part in the matter.

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Posted by BilJ

Member since Sep 2003

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Posted on 4/26/16 at 12:37 pm to Winkface

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Are male sports writers really getting the same troll responses as much as the female writers?

Yes I do. Now the comments to the women are probably more sexist in nature but that's just trolling 101.

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Posted by Grim

Member since Dec 2013

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Posted on 4/26/16 at 12:38 pm to Winkface

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Yeah but do you get it all day, every day? Why do you get it?

No, because I didn't choose to be a reporter for a living. But every one of my YouTube videos has some deplorable shite in the comment section

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Yeah, they can ignore the comments and try their best to not let it get to them but why are we ok with people saying these awful things in the first place? It's still not exactly "right" but people saying means things to an anonymous screenname on a message board is different than saying it to a person's identifiable Twitter handle, even if they are both online.

I'm not trying to defend the people commenting but it's just a reality that when you give people anonymity they're going to use it to say hateful things. In most cases those people either 1) don't really mean what they're saying or 2) they do mean it, which makes them a shitty person and someone whose opinion you shouldn't value anyway. It's more about just accepting the nature of humanity, particularly young kids, and deciding if you can handle seeing it underneath all of your work

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Posted by lsunurse

Member since Dec 2005

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Posted on 4/26/16 at 1:17 pm to Winkface

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It's still not exactly "right" but people saying means things to an anonymous screenname on a message board is different than saying it to a person's identifiable Twitter handle, even if they are both online

We all know I've been guilty as hell at playing the meangirl on here from time to time...but damn...telling someone they should be raped again? Wishing the death of their pets on them? Wishing for them to be beaten by their SOs? Yeah...that just crosses a line altogether imo...whether it's anonymous screennames or on someone's identifiable social media.

I have a fairly tough skin on here...but I don't think I could handle being in the public eye like those reporters and other female celebrities nowadays. Reading comments like those read in the video over and over....yeah that would certainly get to me at some point.

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