Sasquatch Sexual Harassment Is Real, Part III

Bijan, in comments:

I would think that a casual familiarity with online harassment of women would give one pause before making claims about the impossible crudeness of sexual harassment in the 1960-70s.

This reminds me to link to this superb and chilling article about Zoe Quinn, who’s still facing the effects of a calculated and systematic campaign of harassment. Beth has covered this well, but one of the many appalling things about “the Zoe letter” that launched the campaign described nothing that anybody who isn’t a angry misogynist crackpot should care about even if you assume it’s all true. Woman in a brief relationship may not have been monogamous, I’m supposed to give a shit why? As is well-known, the insinuations of issues with ethicsingamingjornalism are so baseless Maureen Dowd would consider them insufficient evidence in a column about the Clintons. With his Ace Rothstein-style possessiveness and sexist resentment, to any decent person the author comes off much worse than the target. And yet, the thing actually started a large online movement. Maybe, just maybe, this should be a hint that the patriarchy is not dead?

And if you haven’t already, see Amanda Hess’s crucial article on the subject. On the original topic at hand, see Sarah Seltzer.