Online Harrassment

Salon.com stepped up to the bat and gave Amanda an opportunity to give her side of the Edwards campaigns' blogging fiasco withWhy I had to quit the John Edwards campaign | Salon News. In the process, she gives even more reasons to start a Feminist Bloggers' PAC :

There are few things like having Bill O'Reilly work himself into a pearl-clutching fit while speaking your name over the air, or watching your in box fill to the brim with sexually violent, threatening e-mails. Young feminists certainly picked up on the message. As one wrote in a blog post tracking back to Pandagon, "I will never, ever go into any sort of actual work on any political campaign. I still might have to close off my original teenage wasteland-style blog. People will gleefully tear you apart any day of the week -- but I'd rather not have that done to me over politics."

We owe it to the younger generations of women who are reading us to get the resources we need to change the political media landscape. We need to effect if we are seriously going to fight back the self-hating Malkins and mysogynist O'Reillys of the world, who make a living out of bashing women who speak truth to power.