Lindsay Bottos epitomizes how terribly women can be treated on the internet through a photography project that went viral on Tumblr.
This is Lindsay Bottos, a 21-year-old Baltimore-based artist and a senior at the Maryland Institute College Of Art.
Lindsay Bottos / Via lindsaybottos.tumblr.com
Bottos, a photography major and gender studies minor, runs a Tumblr page where she often uploads selfies as well as pictures of her work.
Since starting the Tumblr in 2010, she has received hundreds of cruel anonymous messages. Last week, she turned the words of hate into a feminist art project; Bottos screencapped some of the messages and posted them over pictures of herself.
The Tumblr post, called "Anonymous," is a work in progress, she told BuzzFeed. But it nonetheless quickly went viral, garnering over 85,000 notes and drawing in about 20,000 new followers.
Lindsay Bottos / Via lindsaybottos.tumblr.com
The description of the post on Tumblr reads:
Some new stuff I'm working on, I get tons of anonymous messages like this every day and while this isn't unique to women, the content of the messages and the frequency in which I get them are definitely related to my gender. I almost exclusively get them after I post selfies. The authority people feel they have to share their opinion on my appearance is something myself and many other girls online deal with daily.
