the feminist librarian reads

I’m a white woman with some degree of academic-ish microcelebrity, and, on reading Cottom’s paper, I was seriously puzzled as to why none of that ever happens to me. I don’t get either of these sorts of challenges to my expertise–since I began blogging in 2009, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a rape threat on my blog or on social media (though I have been sexually harassed IRL). Mostly, it’s my arguments that are challenged (e.g., facts are refuted). If I’m dismissed, usually it’s some version of “Get a life, love. Stop trying to read so much into things.” Basically, I’m dismissed as too academic. ….which makes NO SENSE! I explicitly identify as a woman–in my pics, in my bio, hell, even on Facebook–but yet I seem to have avoided the kinds of gendered challenges to my expertise that are most women academics online commonly face. So why is my experience so different? I am sure Cottom’s findings are accurate, so what is it about my experience that makes me an outlier?