Have you ever noticed how folks change online? And I don’t mean strictly in civility terms. Don an online mask and identity suddenly fluffs like peacock plumage — forget that the typist is lurking behind a Wizard of Oz-like curtain, terrified that, gasp, the the curtain might be drawn.
These thoughts and more were rattling through my head months ago when I was under attack, sexually harassed – by colleagues and others – for the crime of being a woman journalist. For some reason I had a country station tuned in while I zigzagged through the mountains around Weaverville, Calif. And while thoughts pinged and ponged through my mind, a radio tune interrupted that match. It was Brad Paisley singing “Online.”
Fitting, I thought.
Fitting.
-Christy
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