If Hess has made you wonder, hmm, maybe unrestricted anonymity is bad because it gives trolls too much power, then the system has successfully used her for its true purpose: brand it as bad, to you. She is unwittingly teaching the demo of this article, e.g. women in their 20s with no actual power looking to establish themselves, who are the very people who should embrace anonymity, not to want this: only rapists and too-weak-to-try rapists want to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can’t make someone else money? Interesting to observe that the article’s single suggested solution to cyberharassment is to reframe a criminal problem into a civil rights issue using a logic so preposterously adolescent that if you laid this on your Dad when you were 16 he’d backhand slap you right out of the glee club: “it discourages women from writing and earning a living online.” Earning a living? From who, Gawker? Most of the women writing on the internet are writing for someone else who pays them next to nothing. None of them control the capital, none of them get paid 1/1000 of what they bring in for the media company. You know what they do get? They get to be valued by work, and in gratitude they are going to the front lines to fight for the media company’s right to pay them less.
And the indoctrination has worked, the less Asperger’s a woman is, the more she’ll hate writing anonymously. Don’t get angry at me, they did a study, and I think it explains why women don’t want to write for The Economist. In the reverse, put a pic in your byline and you improve your female audience; put a pic of a female in your byline and you’ve maximized ROI, everyone will click on a pic of a chick. This is economic and psychologic universe in which Hess finds herself.
He may only post every month or two, but when he does, you’re sure to get a lot more insight than you’ve likely gotten from all the other forgettable articles you’ve read on the topic.