"Gender Neutral"

[Squinch]

5. I am glad you said this. I understand people suggesting that women use

gender neutral names on the net, and they are right: it will make you safer from the abuse that women have to deal with online. But I resent the fact that I am not allowed to maintain my equilibrium on some of these sites simply because I am a woman.

The men who abuse women online are just like the men who insist women wear burqas. It is THEIR problem, not the woman's. They have so much rage, and so much need to dominate what they are incapable of dominating, that it sickens them. I wish there were some way to make THEM deal with their crap so I don't have to.

Just another instance where this is the case.