{"id":19520,"date":"2015-01-30T10:14:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19520"},"modified":"2015-01-30T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:14:32","slug":"lindy-west-gets-an-apology-from-one-of-her-nastiest-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19520","title":{"rendered":"Lindy West gets an apology from one of her nastiest trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/545\/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps\">This American Life<\/a>. Just pointing it out for anyone interested in the same issues.<\/p>\n<p>Lindy&#8217;s troll, by the way, was motivated by a combination of misogyny and internalized fat self-hatred; he at the time was trying to lose weight and found Lindy&#8217;s fat-acceptance advocacy intolerable.<\/p>\n<p>Lindy says at one point that she&#8217;s the first person she&#8217;s ever heard of to get an apology from a troll. I&#8217;ve heard of other cases, but they were all people who were brought by to earth by the public revelation of what they&#8217;d been doing (see, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/17\/margaret-cho-attack-of-the-stupid-racist-misogynists\/\">Margaret Cho: attack of the stupid racist misogynists<\/a>). This is the first time I&#8217;ve heard of a troll apologizing without being, at least in part, motivated by not wanting their hate mail exposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this episode of This American Life. Just pointing it out for anyone interested in the same issues. Lindy&#8217;s troll, by the way, was motivated by a combination of misogyny and internalized fat self-hatred; he at the time was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civility-norms-of-discourse","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19521,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions\/19521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}