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0 pointsbelorn11y ago0 comments

When the message is a threat of violence or hitmen, it should be taken serious regardless of the targeted person gender.

It is very important to not trivialize harassment directed at men because they are male and not female. That is part of the very gender stereotype that it is the cause of the statistics your referenced, and reinforcing that behavior will only make things worse.

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angersock11y ago

No, that's stupid, because the cost of taking it seriously is far far greater than the estimated badness of any of those threats.

Reasoning like that is why we have the TSA.

teddyh11y ago

You misunderstood; belorn meant “it should be taken [equally] serious regardless of the targeted person[’s] gender”.

SamReidHughes11y ago

The "harassment" i.e. blog comments is not being trivialized. It's pre-trivial.

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