Sometimes, I Fantasize About Taking Down My Highest Earning Story
The trolls keep coming and they don’t stop coming
This morning, someone commented that my eggs must be dusty because I voiced irritation with how frequently media depicts women obsessing over babies, as if this is our default mode of being.
And yes, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman writing online about being a woman will attract the occasional troll. But it never ceases to surprise me, the things that people will say online with the guise of anonymity.
For whatever reason, I spent my first year or so on Medium without attracting the attention of such men (because, let’s be honest, it is usually men). I even started to think this was a magical corner of the internet where this kind of sexist trolling didn’t exist.
But then, I wrote my first piece that uses the hashtag “feminism.” And there, I found them. Or rather, they found me.
Like any piece of writing, there are things I would change now about what I wrote when I first penned this article about why I stopped teaching Wonder Woman in my superhero themed writing course.
Some of the commenters made interesting points which have shifted how I think about the issue. I like to think I’m not overly precious…
