{"id":675,"date":"2006-05-29T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/29\/more_on_female_commentators_and_abuse"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:05:27","slug":"more_on_female_commentators_and_abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/29\/more_on_female_commentators_and_abuse","title":{"rendered":"More on female commentators and abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The anarchy and the ecstasy\" href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/mediaguardian\/story\/0,,1784903,00.html\">MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The anarchy and the ecstasy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/25\/abuse_of_women_oped_writers\">earlier link<\/a> about female &quot;pundits&quot; and the abuse they get, Georgina Henry reports on the culture at Comment is Free (the Guardian&#39;s comments blog), the &quot;raging argument about professionalism versus amateurism &#8211; with sub-headings covering language, anonymity, accountability, democracy, censorship and the art of conversation&quot; and &quot;the anti-semitism and Islamophobia that dances round any piece about Israel\/Palestine, and the incoherent abuse, the swearing, the false statements, the ill-disguised misogyny, the intimidation and the downright nastiness that fuels so many comments&quot;.  There&#39;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/georgina_henry\/2006\/05\/post_84.html\">particular focus<\/a> on the ugly, personally-directed response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/khadijah_elshayyal\/2006\/05\/is_liberalism_immune_to_reform.html\">post by a young Muslim woman<\/a> on Islam and liberalism.  (More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickledpolitics.com\/archives\/553\">Pickled Politics<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The anarchy and the ecstasy Further from the earlier link about female &quot;pundits&quot; and the abuse they get, Georgina Henry reports on the culture at Comment is Free (the Guardian&#39;s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-aT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42431,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/42431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}