speaking of 'take back the blog day'

two days later we find this Sexual Threats Stifle Some Female Bloggers in the wapo


By Ellen Nakashima

A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened with rape. A single mother who blogged about "the daily ins and outs of being a mom" was threatened by a cyber-stalker who claimed that she beat her son and that he had her under surveillance. Kathy Sierra, who won a large following by blogging about designing software that makes people happy, became a target of anonymous online attacks that included photos of her with a noose around her neck and a muzzle over her mouth...........

...............A 2006 University of Maryland study on chat rooms found that female participants received 25 times as many sexually explicit and malicious messages as males. A 2005 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the proportion of Internet users who took part in chats and discussion groups plunged from 28 percent in 2000 to 17 percent in 2005, entirely because of the exodus of women. ............

for a listing of blogs who DID participate in take back the blog AND their stories, please go here

i have never been threatened as a blogger. however, i HAVE been threatened online and in person. i have been treated less than equally online AND in person. it's not any less of a threat if it takes place online. it's unsettling ANYWHERE, ANYHOW, ANYTIME

today is TAKE BACK THE BLOG day

Take Back the Blog!

what is this you may ask (in case you don't know)

it's to remind everyone - women have a right to do whatever they want (you know what i mean. not murder and the like) WITHOUT threats or scorn or stalking or harassment or intimidation or violence. yes, that even includes blogging or otherwise working on the internet.

we are EQUAL citizens of the world. we are your mothers, wives, partners, employers, employees, aunts, teachers, nurturers AND friends.

(don't piss us off please)