“If talking back to some random idiot makes me feel better—if it’s fortifying for my mental health—then I don’t care if I give some dumbass with 13 followers the flash-in-the-pan attention he’s been craving.”
At the Nation, Feministing’s Jessica Valenti says, “Fuck the high road” and extols the virtues of (sometimes) feeding the trolls. (The above quote is from Lindy West, not Valenti.)
After all, you can’t expect people to keep fighting the good fight day in and day out without a little schadenfreude pick-me-up.
