who are you a stan of?

tbf Rowling would probably not be getting abuse for being a terf is she didn't persistently keep posting terf shit on Twitter

I'm not saying that Rowling doesn't deserve the abuse, or defending her in any way shape or form. I'm just saying: it's abuse, it's not actually criticism. (You know, forget that I ever mentioned Rowling, to me she's literally not important and I've found over the past month that when I even mention her in passing, people will frothingly defend their inalienable right to frame the transparent online abuse she's received as "criticism", and I feel ridiculous even talking about it any more considering that I, too, agree that Rowling's comments were fucking foul, and I have no personal use for her presence or work in my life henceforth.)

I agree that there's a lot of abuse which is beyond the pale, and I agree that people are not fair game because they happen to have some level of celebrity

Don't use Twitter would seem to be one way out of this.

Yes. Several A-list musicians I am acquainted with do not engage with social media in any capacity-- two particularly famous clients don't own phones at all and communicate solely via e-mail. But: Twitter is just a pressure cooker for a broader cultural problem.

In what ways does it happen outside of Twitter? Feels like Twitter fuels it behind the scenes either way.

harassment of people in the public sphere/their relatives happened long before twitter!! harassment can take many forms, it's just easier now

Also, writers/journalists have good reason to feel they must be on twitter for professional reasons

I suppose I assumed fgti was talking more about when people gang up to do it but I misread.