Amanda Hess, a staff writer at Slate, has also written for Pacific Standard, GOOD, and ESPN the Magazine.

"I ended up not loving the fact that I was getting a bunch of calls from MSNBC and CNN, who mostly wanted to talk about people threatening to rape and kill me and only a tiny bit about the story I'd written. ... It was tiring, and it seemed dismissive of me as a person. It's a strange thing to become somebody else's story, especially when the story is: You're a victim of an insane online harasser. That's who you are."

Thanks to this week's sponsors, TinyLetter and Oyster Books.

Show notes:

@amandahess

Hess on Longform

sexwithamandahess.com

[3:15] "Point Taken" (Washington City Paper • Mar 2008)

[9:30] The Sexist blog

[18:30] "What Women Want: Porn and the Frontier of Female Sexuality" (Good • Nov 2011)

[31:30] "Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet" (Pacific Standard • Jan 2014)

[46:45] "Just Cheer, Baby" (ESPN The Magazine • Apr 2014)

[47:00] "You Can Only Hope to Contain Them" (ESPN The Magazine • Jul 2013)

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