I was happy to see that the Washington Post is giving some attention to the harrassment that female bloggers recieve online through degrading insults and in my experience at Ball State University, some vulgar photoshopping of my student identification photo.

Of course, this isn't to say because I'm a female I can be undeserving of criticism for my writing. But, when pornographic photoshopped images started appearing online of myself on a local college website because of my conservative writing I was outraged---especially when I found out a graduate student on campus, who had been teaching classes, was responsible.

I printed off hundreds of pages of this filth and took it to my university's student life center. "Sorry" they said. I told them a person drawing a university salary was responsible. "You can't prove he did this on campus, on a university computer though" they said.

Although the university wasn't willing to help me, the local police were. When I went to them, they took my concerns seriously and took action.

Now, when I have the chance to talk with young conservative ladies, like my meetings with Clare Boothe Luce, I caution female activists about the treatment they might recieve for speaking out on campups. This isn't to intimidate them, but to warn them and give them advice on how to stand these sort of attacks down.

I chose to write about it. Instead of letting them intimidate me, I turned up the heat. Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin has taken a similar course of action.

For this piece, the Post talked to Malkin, whose has recieved enough nasty, personal attacks of this sort to fill an entire book, titled "Unhinged."

She told the Post, "'First, where have y'all been? For several years, the unhinged Internet underworld has been documented here,' she wrote, reposting a comment on her site that called for the torture, rape, murder' of her family."

She encouraged ladies "above all: "Keep blogging. Don't cut and run."

Well, said Michelle.