re: Men read abusive comments made to women sports writers to their face

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

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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.

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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