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Then she should be afraid of sexual assaults, not killings.

And reading that page, I see most of the items are of this severity:

> An offensive tweet was made against the PyLadies group

Really? That's inappropriate, but it's not sexual assault.

In fact, there are 14 instances of the word "assault". Which by my count is no more than 10% of the items.

Over-exaggerating the problem is fear-mongering.

  This looks a lot like flailing around, trying to find reasons for being upset.
"I'm afraid of being killed"

It doesn't happen.

"Crap, I'm afraid of sexually assaulted, it happens a lot, here's proof!"

That actually disproves your assertion.

<crickets>




Honestly this list could use some trimming, you can't really have a "list of sexist incident" contain a change in the way blocking works on Twitter (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Twitter_Blockgate)! At least, you can't if you want people to take the list seriously...


>Rosetta shirtgate

The fact the list contains that says everything I need to know about the list.




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