Cory Doctorow

“ The years she’d spent in the trenches on Main Twitter, enduring terrible men who hated her for the sin of turning X23 into a massive comics franchise were behind her. She’d once thought that the hardest thing she would ever do is transform a joke of a character—basically “Girl-Wolverine”—into a bestselling title, but the adversity that had entailed was nothing compared to the endless, toxic inventiveness of men who hated everything about her, from her writing to her body, her Palestinian heritage to her haircut. ”

“ But Heroic Comic-Con seemed like her speed: nothing but super-heroes, no manga or gamer stuff, which she’d never had time for, not with all the glorious superhero comics out there to read and write. HCC was held in May, after southern California schools let out but before San Diego turned into an oven, so there was that going for it too.
It was a good call. The people were nice as hell, and when awful comics dudes got in her face, there were other creators around who’d give them six kinds of hell and send them packing. ”

“ Our filters are good enough to stop them. Plus we have our own house rules: unlike Main Twitter, we’ll accept your DM screenshots as evidence and block those bozos for all our users. It’s just one of the benefits of knowing all the other users personally and being able to trust them. ”