1. ICYM it last night. This man in Rankin County, whom I don’t know, repeatedly called me a “c*nt” in Facebook messages with other choice remarks because he didn’t like my “smug” remarks about racism on @CBSNews.
https://twitter.com/DonnerKay/status/1565851077949493249
2. Know that so many women in Mississippi are afraid to share opinions publicly due to smears and attacks like this. They tell me all the time privately while cheering me on—for 20 years now. I’ve been called everything and every false rumor spread by these types (left $ right).
3. It is one reason I left Mississippi right after college. But I came back strong enough to stand up to it it ignore it, but this toxic misogyny is a major cause of #msbraindrain. One reason I’m vocal is to take a stand against silencing and smears of women here.
4. Here’s stunner: Most men will not challenge it. There’s a Jackson blog filled with smears and belittlement of women. I’m a “journalistic slut” on the site. He wished a woman attorney’s breast implants (which she didn’t have) would burst. Dems, Repubs advertise on the site.
5. Oh, and I wrote about remarkable lengths men will go to to take women here: m.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2012/jan/…
6. I’m used to these hits, and they don’t derail me. I choose if, how and when to respond. But it’s hard to change pitiful status of women in Mississippi if more people do not face and try to change this culture of trying to destroy women who says something one doesn’t like.
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