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The Price of Being (Sort of) Online

The Price of Being (Sort of) Online

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Lindsay Lerman
Apr 19, 2024
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Please read the following with care. It includes reference to threats of violence.

What’s the cost of being a woman online? What’s the cost of being a woman who publishes some writing? Every woman has a different answer, I’m sure, but for me it includes death threats. Serious ones. Insidious ones. And the knowledge that there is no correct way to handle such threats.

Still from Smooth Talk (1985), directed by Joyce Chopra, starring Laura Dern. Adapted from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates (“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”) first published in 1966.

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