Looking at men as a whole more widely, it is a sadly undeniable truth that there are some men who feel either a deep rage or a genuine, unquestioned superiority towards women.
I have received too many long, specific, intricate emails from men detailing their fantasy of my rape and murder to believe those who say that it’s always just a bit of harmless fun.
It is often suggested that these men are angry at something else – that they are probably unpopular teenage boys transcending the frustration of their own powerlessness by terrorizing innocent strangers across the net. But this seems too convenient a theory to fit the coordinated gang attacks and entire message-board threads religiously devoted to persecuting female ‘targets’.
