“One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I'm doing now, is that I get to meet feminists all the time and I get to read new feminists every day on the blogosphere.” FeministOnline Author:Jessica Valenti
“I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayFeelsKindMeanSpaceInternetBotherOnlineHarassment Author:Jessica Valenti
“The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don't like that in much the same way that if you're walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that's why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindHappensVoiceSpaceStreetsInternetWalkingThings HappenOnlineHesitant Author:Jessica Valenti
“I think it is effective when activists work from the margins, and I think that's the best way to go about it. And I do think that it's increasingly being more effective with the work that's being done online, that it is a bit more democratized, that whatever kind of activism is being done, it's not necessarily coming from one centralized place.” ThinkingWayKindDoneBitsActivismBest WayOnlineActivistMarginsBeing Done Author:Jessica Valenti
“When it comes to people who are saying really extreme things online, we have the tendency to think that they are just kooks, or that you shouldn't pay attention to them, you shouldn't take them seriously.” PeopleThinkingPayAttentionExtremesTendenciesPay AttentionOnline Author:Jessica Valenti
“Because there's no accountability on line in the same way there is in real life, all of a sudden you can say like, yeah, I hate women; I want to kill women. And you can say that online, and not only will you find a place to say it, but you'll find a place to say it where people are like, yeah, me too.” PeopleWayWantRealHateLinesI HateYeahReal LifeOnlineAccountability Author:Jessica Valenti
“You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're online, is that you're a person too, right, and that you're not this ideal of feminism, that everything you do like feminism just like falls in your wake.” PeopleThinkingPersonsEndsFallForgetFeminismIdealsThe End Of The DayOnlinePersonal LifeAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Jessica Valenti
“One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I'm doing now, is that I get to meet feminists all the time and I get to read new feminists every day on the blogosphere. And it's really that kind of diversity of thought that informs me more than anything else these days. It's just kind of learning something new all the time. And I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.” KindMovingChangedDiversityFeministOnlineSomething New Author:Jessica Valenti
“I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and the term "young feminist," and the first thing that came up was a page from the National Organization for Women that was about 10 or 15 years old. And it just struck me as so odd that there was all of this young feminist activism going on, but that it wasn't necessarily being represented online, that the first things in a Google search to come up were really, really old. I think to a certain degree we really filled a gap, and that's why we got such a large readership.” ThinkingRememberTermFeminismFeministActivismOddOnlineGoogle Author:Jessica Valenti
