An Australian reporter has adopted a new tactic for dealing with men who send her rape threats - she's telling their mothers.
According to The Guardian, as a game reviewer Alanah Pearce has gotten a few death threats in her time.
"A while ago, I realised that a lot of the people who send disgusting or overly sexual comments to me over the internet aren’t adult males,” she told the newspaper.
“It turns out that mostly they’re young boys and the problem is they don’t know any better, so responding to them rationally didn’t resolve the situation. And it got to the point where their comments were starting to make me feel really uncomfortable.”
So what did she do? Contact their mothers on Facebook.
Apparently this is easy enough to do in most cases, due to their personal information being in their profiles.
So far she has gotten ahold of four of the mothers, with one replying "OMG little shit, I'm so sorry. Yes I will speak to him."
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