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First picture of a black hole made Katie Bouman an overnight celebrity. Then internet trolls descend

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The first picture of a black hole made Katie Bouman an overnight celebrity. Then internet trolls descended.

The situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.

Katie Bouman, a researcher who helped create the first image of a black hole, quickly gained internet fame Thursday for her role in the project after a photo of her went viral.

But internet trolls soon followed, questioning Bouman’s work and floating false claims that she did not have much of a role in the project. Colleagues rallied to her defense, but the situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.
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Where do these trolls live? Under a troll bridge?

Apparently there exist misogynist communities on the internet that can't handle the simple truth that women are both smart & good at what they do in their chosen areas, in this case multi-telescope interferometric imaging. If you can neither spell it or understand it, you don't deserve to be maligning the woman who did a major part of the code writing behind the necessary algorithm.

If they have nothing positive to contribute, why don't they pick on someone who deserves ridicule & derision?
 
The first picture of a black hole made Katie Bouman an overnight celebrity. Then internet trolls descended.

The situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.

Katie Bouman, a researcher who helped create the first image of a black hole, quickly gained internet fame Thursday for her role in the project after a photo of her went viral.

But internet trolls soon followed, questioning Bouman’s work and floating false claims that she did not have much of a role in the project. Colleagues rallied to her defense, but the situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.
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Where do these trolls live? Under a troll bridge?

Apparently there exist misogynist communities on the internet that can't handle the simple truth that women are both smart & good at what they do in their chosen areas, in this case multi-telescope interferometric imaging. If you can neither spell it or understand it, you don't deserve to be maligning the woman who did a major part of the code writing behind the necessary algorithm.

If they have nothing positive to contribute, why don't they pick on someone who deserves ridicule & derision?

They probably claim the alleged black hole is just a pic of a large glazed donut she baked in her kitchen?
 
They probably claim the alleged black hole is just a pic of a large glazed donut she baked in her kitchen?

I think many of these 'people' feel threatened by women, especially the bright & accomplished ones. These are the '400 pound guy on his bed in the basement' that Trump referred to as the stereotyped hacker.

I personally think women are great. Every guy should have at least one in his life. They can be a lot of fun. Especially if they can cook as well as my wife.
 
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I blame The Big Bang Theory television show.
 
Haven't caught an episode of that one. How does it relate to the OP?

The show has been wretched for many years and is, thankfully, in its final season.

Currently, lucky applied physics guys stumbled into the confirmation of the main characters' scientific discovery and are trying to steal the Nobel.

The right-side column of the home page doesn't observe spoiler tag. Weird.
 
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The show has been wretched for many years and is, thankfully, in its final season.

Currently, lucky applied physics guys stumbled into the confirmation of the main characters' scientific discovery and are trying to steal the Nobel.

The right-side column of the home page doesn't observe spoiler tag. Weird.

So how does it relate to the OP?
 
So how does it relate to the OP?

I guess you'd have to see the show. And I'm only saying such on perusal of the show and the OP.
 
I guess you'd have to see the show. And I'm only saying such on perusal of the show and the OP.

I'll look for it tonight on Netflix or Amazon Prime. I love my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10-inch tablet for watching videos late at night.
 
I'll look for it tonight on Netflix or Amazon Prime. I love my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10-inch tablet for watching videos late at night.

The most current couple episodes to my knowledge. I don't mean to take away from the discussion of sexism driving the trolling, but good luck with that in this crowd.
 
The most current couple episodes to my knowledge. I don't mean to take away from the discussion of sexism driving the trolling, but good luck with that in this crowd.

Maybe it's because wimps are afraid of smart women who can accomplish things they can't even imagine doing.
 
Maybe it's because wimps are afraid of smart women who can accomplish things they can't even imagine doing.

That's only one of the reasons men get complexes about women.
 
The first picture of a black hole made Katie Bouman an overnight celebrity. Then internet trolls descended.

The situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.

Katie Bouman, a researcher who helped create the first image of a black hole, quickly gained internet fame Thursday for her role in the project after a photo of her went viral.

But internet trolls soon followed, questioning Bouman’s work and floating false claims that she did not have much of a role in the project. Colleagues rallied to her defense, but the situation highlighted the vitriol that women continue to face on the internet, and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.
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Where do these trolls live? Under a troll bridge?

Apparently there exist misogynist communities on the internet that can't handle the simple truth that women are both smart & good at what they do in their chosen areas, in this case multi-telescope interferometric imaging. If you can neither spell it or understand it, you don't deserve to be maligning the woman who did a major part of the code writing behind the necessary algorithm.

If they have nothing positive to contribute, why don't they pick on someone who deserves ridicule & derision?

I wasn’t aware that random people on the internet not believing something constituted “vitriol”.

Anything to promote the feminist victim narrative I suppose.
 
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