This Powerful Video Shows Just How Violent Online Harassment Is for Women in Sports

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2. they're acting out a violent pornographic ideology in real-time and never expect to be caught

I really think most of the guys who do this compartmentalize it the way they justify using violent gonzo pornography. "It's just representation." "It's my free speech." "It's just fantasy." "You're too sensitive." "I'm not that way in _real_ relationships."

The dirty truth of violent pornography that's become harder to ignore (with revenge porn, which is simply distributing sexually violating photographs of "good" women) is that these "bad" women are living breathing human beings to whom the violence is done while it's being filmed. They aren't some symbols just being re-arranged in somebody else's "free speech." The stuff that's said to women in porn is what's said by these assholes in the anonymity of the Internet. It reveals the political ideology of violent pornography, that all women are "sluts" whose only value is their sexual use by males. The text that goes along with Gonzo includes all of the woman-hating comments in online harassment, and it's said in part as an implied performance for other males, to imply a membership in a higher sexual caste of males that entitles its members to reduce females to nothing but sex.

Like road ragers in a car, these guys think they can actually participate in their women-hating porn fantasies with actual women via the Internet. It illustrates that in fact the ideology of violent porn does bleed over into life when these guys think they can get away with it.