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this is just disgusting.
As women gain visibility in the blogosphere, they are targets of sexual harassment and threats. Men are harassed too, and lack of civility is an abiding problem on the Web. But women, who make up about half the online community, are singled out in more starkly sexually threatening terms -- a trend that was first evident in chat rooms in the early 1990s and is now moving to the blogosphere, experts and bloggers said.And I agree with Arianna.
Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post site is among the most prominent of blogs founded by women, said anonymity online has allowed "a lot of those dark prejudices towards women to surface."Which brings me to something I've thought about for years: are most humans civil because of a fear of getting caught and punished? Eliminate that fear of going to prison and would most humans would act like the animal the species really is?
I think that is quite possibly true.
I think religion deters very few people from committing atrocious acts (and there are those atrocious acts carried out in the religious community anyway) so I don't think that's what's keeping people "in check" if you will. No, I think it's a fear of being anal gangraped in prison. If there was no possibility of anything "bad" happening to some of these people then we would have more behaivor similar to what's happening in the blogosphere only this behavior would be happening in the streets, in homes, offices, cars, malls, parks, etc.
Humans are animals, and without the fear of punishment, most would act as such. It's rather depressing when you think about.