the feminist librarian reads

This behavior — flagrant misogyny and the aggrieved overtones of men’s rights activism coupled with the treatment of women’s bodies (and private photos of those bodies) as property — has become a hallmark of the modern internet creep, whose most damaging actions seem to stem from either an intense longing for, resentment of, or fear of the female sex. And, while this very particular attitude toward women (as well as most minority groups) isn’t necessarily the driving motive behind all internet crimes, it is, in many cases, a belief system that seems to course through many of the internet’s darkest anonymous corners.