| >none of them become the target of organized harassment campaigns. That's quite dismissive of men who have become the target of harassment campaigns. >The notion that women should write under pen names while men freely and safely claim credit for any random achievement is a perfect example of how this industry allows itself to be rigged against women. Women aren't even supposed to identify themselves --- when they do, they're just allowing themselves to be victimized by the forces of nature, which apparently include mobs of misogynist trolls. There are plenty of men who cannot safely claim credit for their writings, though the reason is usually ideological rather than rooted in their identity. If you, as a man or a woman, post something which is found disagreeable by a large majority of your peers in 2016, someone will come after your job. Someone will try to find out where you live. To ignore this problem and solely focus on the fact that women receive snide, misogynist comments sometimes when they write innocuous articles seems intellectually dishonest. |