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" has considerable polish for a site that began several years ago as an extracurricular endeavor to review episodes of the US television series The OC, and that was built through a process of trial and error using information from online webpage-making tutorials.

If the above paragraphs have made little sense, it may be because you are over 30, and all of this business transpires in the realms of cyberspace that Dr Chulanee Thianthai, a sociologist and anthropologist at Chulalongkorn University who has studied the impacts of technology on the "net generation" (i.e.

the generation that grew up with them), explains Thai adults are less apt to explore.

According to Chulanee's research, Gnarly Kitty typifies a generation that, having grown up with net-related technologies and embraced them, has become distinctively more open, worldly and expressive than that came before.

Blame it on the current Camfrog-crushing mood of the kingdom, but according to a number public opinion polls (a February Suan Dusit being the latest) it seems the general public also finds this generation, with their tight clothes and technology dependencies, to be a lot less moral than ever before.

Perhaps because of this, the Internet has been under the increasing sc...

“There’s a whole bunch of women who are being intimidated,” she said.

They include academics, professional programmers and other women normally unafraid to speak their minds.

Saying your colleagues “just need thicker skin” sounds a little brutal under the circumstances, and that’s not what Michelle said.

“Expressing sympathy” for the victim and urging her to keep It doesn’t minimize the threat or Sierra’s reaction to it; the threats are outrageous and shouldn’t have to be tolerated by anyone.

Unless, of course, you’re conservative.

Then no one cares.

That’s when, apparently, you just need to grow thicker skin.

And then the other line– “But [Indiana University professor] Herring said Malkin is in a minority”.

Racist!

No, seriously, though, how is she in a minority?

Herring says there is a whole group of women being harassed.

Michelle, speaking from firsthand knowledge, agrees.

I’m not sure if this is imprecise writing, or if they’re setting her up as a hardass/conservative foil to the mainstream response.

In this case I actually suspect the former–that the piece was written under the impression that there was more disagreement between the Malkin response to harassment and the mainstream (or at least Herring) than there actually was, an...