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Valenti spoke with Emma Pearse.

What’s with the cover, the title printed across a woman’s bare torso?

I’ve taken a lot of shit about the cover—somebody called me a patriarchal whore.

But let’s face it, no young woman is going to pick up a book with the woman’s symbol with a fist on it.

Has It’s going to revolutionize feminism.

I can’t tell you how many e-mails I get from girls who do a random search on Jessica Simpson or Britney Spears and end up on Feministing.

Who is Miss Magoo, the book’s dedicatee?

My mother: Miss Magoo was her gang nickname when she was growing up in Long Island City.

They would say Magoo and her Goos.

What impact do you think the partial-birth-abortion ban will have in New York?

If it’s happening to a woman in Texas, it’s going to affect us.

I’m terrified, frankly.

You got a lot of flak for not wearing a suit to meet Bill Clinton—were you intending to be provocative?

No, the whole manufactured “controversy” came as quite a shock.

It wasn’t a busty top; sadly, it was just a Gap crewneck sweater.

I guess some folks don’t get out all that often.

Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters Seal Press.

256 pages.

$14.95.

More: Book Features Articles by Emma Pearse From the May 7, 2007 issue of New York Email This ...

But women, who make up about half the online community, are singled out in more starkly sexually threatening terms - a trend that was first evident in chat rooms in the early 1990s and is now moving to the blogosphere, experts and bloggers said.

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RedditFacebook A 2006 University of Maryland study on chat rooms found that female participants received 25 times as many sexually explicit and malicious messages as males.

A 2005 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the proportion of Internet users who took part in chats and discussion groups plunged from 28 percent in 2000 to 17 percent in 2005 entirely because of the exodus of women.

The study attributed the trend to "sensitivity to worrisome behavior in chat rooms."Joan Walsh, editor in chief of the online magazine Salon, said that since the letters section of her site was automated a year and a half ago, "it's been hard to ignore that the criticisms of women writers are much more brutal and vicious than those about men."Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post site is among the most promine...