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1 " In 2015, the writer Alex Blank Millard engaged in her own gender-swap experiment to highlight the misogynist nature of online abuse. Sick of constantly receiving rape threats from ‘faceless eggs’ online, she changed her Twitter profile photo to that of a white man – but kept the content she posted the same. When Millard tweeted about rape culture, fat shaming, and systemic oppression as Lady Alex, the standard response was a deluge of rape and death threats, and a bunch of guys calling her fat. When she commented on the same things as Straight- and Cis-Looking White Dude Alex, she was retweeted, favourited, and even cited by Buzzfeed (Millard, 2015). "
― Emma A. Jane , Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History (SAGE Swifts)
2 " It doesn’t have to be perfect to be better than a hotbed of rape threats and Nazi memes. "
― Adam Kotsko
3 " The fact that rape threats are a thing says a lot about how rape isn't a lapse in self-control but often a tool to punish & control others. "
― Steph Guthrie
