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Showing Original Post only (View all)A female violinist saved 10 years worth of unsolicited, creepy online messages from men [View all]
Every woman who has ventured online is well aware of the perils. Sheltered by anonymity, sexual predators thrive on the Internet, where sending vulgar missives rarely has consequences.
Most women cope by promptly deleting these inappropriate messages and trying to forget about them. Mia Matsumiya, a professional violinist based in Los Angeles, chose to save them.
For the past 10 years, Matsumiya has collected over 1,000 obscene communications shes received in a folder called creepiness. Now shes sharing them all with the world, on a tongue-in-cheek Instagram account aptly named @perv_magnet.
According to Buzzfeed, Matsumiya gained a following after she started blogging about her band performances in 2003. Since then, shes received a seemingly endless torrent of sexually aggressive messages on Facebook, MySpace, OkCupid and other sites.
Most women cope by promptly deleting these inappropriate messages and trying to forget about them. Mia Matsumiya, a professional violinist based in Los Angeles, chose to save them.
For the past 10 years, Matsumiya has collected over 1,000 obscene communications shes received in a folder called creepiness. Now shes sharing them all with the world, on a tongue-in-cheek Instagram account aptly named @perv_magnet.
According to Buzzfeed, Matsumiya gained a following after she started blogging about her band performances in 2003. Since then, shes received a seemingly endless torrent of sexually aggressive messages on Facebook, MySpace, OkCupid and other sites.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/21/a-woman-violinist-exposes-10-years-of-lewd-fetishizing-messages-from-men-online/
Good on her for doing this.
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A female violinist saved 10 years worth of unsolicited, creepy online messages from men [View all]
YoungDemCA
Oct 2015
OP
Basically ALL men are misogynist. Some of us work against it and try and change
randys1
Oct 2015
#13
A rational minds realizes the difference between the statistical norm and the statistical aberration
LanternWaste
Oct 2015
#27
I am the one who voted to leave it, and now realizing we are in a (group) and not GD
randys1
Oct 2015
#14