@ggreenwald Taylor Lorenz went after me on-and-off for weeks over my activity on Clubhouse, screencapping my invites and rooms and insinuating to her following that I was some sort of racist nutcase. The only woman she's ever given a flying fuck about is herself.
@ggreenwald At one point, she even falsely claimed that I had photoshopped a screenshot that I had taken of a man making a fairly horrifying comment about me. Once she realized that several other people had seen the tweet I had screencapped, she deleted the accusation and disappeared.
@ggreenwald When it's a woman *she dislikes* who's receiving nasty comments online, her first impulse is to claim with absolutely no evidence whatsoever that that woman is lying. She has absolutely no standing to crusade against online abuse of any kind. She's too often the perp or enabler.
@ggreenwald And FWIW, a somewhat thickened skin *is* a prerequisite for joining the public-facing chattering classes. People will say mean things, and you're free to ignore them or fire back as you like. I don't appreciate Taylor constantly conflating this with real harassment or stalking.
@ggreenwald I picked up an *actual* stalker a year or so ago, someone who emailed me constantly, describing where I lived and claiming to watch me through my windows — alongside threats against me and news clippings about how few violent crimes are solved. Mean tweets are not equivalent.
@ggreenwald And to be clear, that didn't "destroy my life." I moved out of town so that I (hopefully) wouldn't be retargeted when the guy got out of jail, which thanks to San Francisco's criminal justice system will likely be in the next couple of months. It sucks, but life goes on.
@ggreenwald A final note: when I decided to go to the police, I was worried that I wouldn't be taken seriously. That wasn't the case. I was treated very respectfully and they made the arrest only a few weeks later. It turned out that he'd been doing this to a number of other women for years.
@ggreenwald If anyone reading this has been receiving messages that rise to the level of criminal harassment or stalking, I definitely encourage you to directly contact the specific police department that deals with those crimes in your area.

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