Posted by rebecca
A few months back I wrote a post about female bloggers, and how I don’t get shaken up or outraged about the imbalance between female bloggers and male bloggers in the tech/SEO sphere. For the most part, I still stand by what I wrote, but today I’m going to (sort of) eat my words and talk about Kathy Sierra’s unfortunate, infuriating situation.
Kathy’s Creating Passionate Users blog is one of my favorite reads (and I’m not the only Mozzer who thinks so–Jeff is also a fan). She is a great writer–she’s funny, knowledgeable, and engaging. Lately, however, she has been the victim of death threat comments and sexist, misogynistic, and offensive remarks and images that have been left on both her blog and on others. (To read about the situation, check out her "Death threats against bloggers are NOT ‘protected speech’" post.)
Now, I don’t get offended easily. I like […]
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