At the end of the four-minute “More Than Mean” video, it showed those same men apologizing on behalf of everyone who has sent a frightful mean tweet without thinking how it would make the woman receiving it feel.
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The four-minute video, produced by USA website Just Not Sports, features Chicago-based sports reporters Julie DiCaro and Sarah Spain.
Numerous men tear up and struggle to finish reading the warped, disgusting messages.
Just Not Sports writes that the #MoreThanMean campaign is meant to “raise awareness about online harassment of women sports reporters”.
‘Hopefully this skank is Bill Cosby’s next victim. “Women reporters speak out on this issue courageously, but we wanted to find a new way to make guys see and experience the effects of online harassment”. Spain is an ESPN Radio host and ESPN writer. “I hope your boyfriend beats you”, read another tweet. I’ve chosen to keep them anonymous.
“Once, I got a dagger splattered in blood sent to me in the mail”.
“I hope you get raped again”. In case the message wasn’t clear (because apparently people have to have it spelled out for them), the video ends with the text, “We wouldn’t say it to their faces”.
“If that’s the way you think, I don’t know that there’s anything we can do to change that”, she said.
“As part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black”.
A PSA released Tuesday illustrates the harassment women in sports media regularly face online with a face-to-face reading of hateful tweets targeting two accomplished female sports reporters.
“There has been. I would say it’s been 90 percent positive”.
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On his nightly ABC talk show, Jimmy Kimmel has a lot of fun with the mean tweets people write, usually pseudonymously, about famous people online. From male fans. It’s not just hate or mean tweets. If you still haven’t seen it, take a few minutes to watch the entire video, if you can stomach it. She heard from men asking, “Where’s the video about men being harassed?” “They must be deeply unhappy if they can so easily shed their humanity and aim to damage women like me”.
