"Ask just about any woman in politics and she'll have a story about an e-mail, a tweet or a phone call in which she was called names that are unprintable, and which suggest that she does not possess the right chromosomes to be seated at the table with the powerful boys. The abuse aimed at female politicians is specific because its target is gender – rape threats, suggestions that they return to that mythical kitchen – and its aim is exclusion."

It sounds as if we have a significant segment of our population that is similar in outlook and intelligence to those who put the current American president into the White House. It is unfortunate, to be sure. 

I believe that impulse is a factor in all of this. It would seem that impulse is often irresistible when the internet is so easily accessible, especially with an enabling liquid standing not far from the keyboard. Impulse makes on-line attackers oblivious to the fact that every computer has an IP identifier. ...