Trolls Verbally Attack This Athlete And Bodyshame Her, She Responds With Swimsuit Pics

Even though Lindsey’s post is an opportunity to celebrate a strong, independent person who doesn’t allow anonymous haters to feed artificially simulated insecurities, this whole situation is yet another example, another tip of a really worrisome iceberg. The iceberg is also known as online culture which, as this story illustrates, is full of verbal abuse and violence. And to be more precise—violence against women.

It takes many forms, but online harassment is one of them. For example, according to a fact sheet released by the European Commission in 2019, 1 in 10 women in the European Union has experienced online harassment.