After watching the viral reaction to the video of two women in sports having men read aloud the harassing tweets they regularly receive, I was stunned.
I was stunned — not because I had no idea what it felt like to be the target of those hateful phrases — but because so many people expressed shock and horror at hearing those awful things, as if the idea of this sort of behavior was novel and unchartered territory.
But women like Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro have been saying for months — perhaps even years — that they've been the subject of online harassment.