Brigitte Pellerin: Coun. Stephanie Plante using a slightly mean emoji to hurt a fella’s feelings is the social media equivalent of a man cold.

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Remember that time you spent your hard-earned money policing a woman’s tone on the internet? I hope you’re as steamed about it as I am. We shouldn’t have spent one minute investigating the social media conduct of Rideau-Vanier Coun. Stéphanie Plante. Not when so many women who are public with their politics and their opinions get abused online every single day.

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I know this because I am one of them. I got my first death threat years before my eldest, now an adult, was born. I can’t count the number of times I’ve received very precise and eminently graphic threats of sexual violence. As for “regular” abusive language — being called a cow, for instance — it’s too common to even........

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