Dahlia Lithwick discusses threats against female bloggers.

...women, who make up about half the online community, are singled out in more starkly sexually threatening terms -- a trend that was first evident in chat rooms in the early 1990s and is now moving to the blogosphere, experts and bloggers said.

And the women (like me) who try to ignore them. Or at least I did -- until the Kathy Sierra affair.

Gee, a tiny bit of the rampant bullshit that’s directed at women online finally makes the news. Maybe now all those idiots who tell us it’s not a problem and we shouldn’t let it bother us with get a clue?

The blogosphere is passionately debating Kathy Sierra’s death threats and misogynous bashing at the defunct meankids.org.