dropped out of the blogosphere rather than deal with hateful internet feedback? wanted to continue this discussion on air. so let s bring in the aforementioned amanda hess, who s in hartford, connecticut today, and amy wallace, who wrote a column for the new york times on the same subject last weekend. thank you both for coming on. thanks for having me. amanda, your headline s pretty stark about this being the next civil rights issue. why do you think local and federal authorities and sometimes even some of your own colleagues don t take this kind of harassment seriously enough? i think two things are going on. one is that violence and harassment against women has been discounted for many years in a variety of contexts. sexual harassment in the workplace, domestic violence were all sort of dismissed before they became civil rights agendas. and the second part is that we have this idea about the internet that it is separate from real life, even though it is increasingly central