Female Journalists In India Being Abused On Twitter

A recent story out of Delhi has the Twitterverse up in arms (thumbs? pointer fingers? whatever you type with).

Kavita Krishnan, a prominent Delhi-based women’s activist, was attacked viciously during a recent online chat on violence against women on Rediff.com, a leading news site in India.

Krishnan was participating in a Rediff chat when a user with the handle @RAPIST began posting abusive comments. He proceeded to ask her, Krishnan says, if “he could come rape me using a condom.”

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