![]() These include Valenti’s Sex Object, Shrill by Lindy West – and Clementine Ford’s Fight Like a Girl. It’s hardly surprising that she and other ‘professional feminists’, to use Valenti’s own descriptor, sometimes take social media breaks, or that navigating misogyny online is central to the contents of several popular feminist books released in 2016. Earlier this year, Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti went offline after a troll threatened to rape her young daughter. Who would want to be a high-profile feminist in the age of social media? I sometimes find myself thinking this as I scroll through the Facebook and Twitter feeds of well-known feminists that I follow or the comments sections of their columns, awed by both their output (I’m an academic – so my work is slow in comparison) and struck by the high volume of cyber-hate that comes in the wake of even the most benign opinion pieces. ![]()
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