The Troll Taunter [BackChannel.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/30/174:00 AM

The “fuck you” project crystallized one Friday night last year. As Emily Temple-Wood video-chatted with friends, an email pinged in her inbox:

“There are alternate realities where I raped you and got away with it,” it read. “In those realities it’s legal for me to rape you as long as I want and as hard as I want. I am dead serious.”

The note came from someone with a history of harassing the 22-year-old medical student. This man hates women, Temple-Wood thought to herself. Then she had another thought. What do misogynists hate more than successful women?

[For more of this story, written by Andrew McMillen, go to https://backchannel.com/one-wo...-trolls-aab4107d374b]

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