Thursday, October 2, 2014

Why We Need To Fight Online Trolls, Not Just Ignore Them

People say to “just ignore” men like Ed Champion who attack women like me on the internet. Why that’s not OK. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed "Develop a thicker skin." It's a phrase I've heard a lot over the years (as recently as a few days ago), and for a long time I took it to heart and hoped I would develop the kind of calluses that these people were talking about. I'm a woman who's...

Tao Lin Responds To Abuse Allegations On Facebook

Last week, E.R. Kennedy, also known as Ellen Kennedy, took to Twitter to accuse the author Tao Lin of plagiarism and said that he was abusive when Kennedy dated him in 2005, when she was 16. Lin responded to the allegations in emails and on Facebook. Flickr: taolin / Via en.wikipedia.org In emails to BuzzFeed news and a Facebook post that appears to have since been deleted,...

Believe in yourself

Believe in yourself. Luck is nothing but Labour Under Correct Knowledge. ...