293 © he Author(s) 2018 J. R. Vickery, T. Everbach (eds.), Mediating Misogyny, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72917-6_15 15 The Varieties of Feminist Counterspeech in the Misogynistic Online World Scott R. Stroud and William Cox Online harassment takes many forms, but at its core is a new media ver- sion of the harassment women are routinely exposed to in oline settings. In 2014, the Pew Research Center conducted a study of online harass- ment in the U.S. that showed one-third of women had personally experi- enced some type of harassment, and 72.5% of women reported witnessing someone being harassed online (Citron 2014). Most of the harassment towards men occurred in the form of name calling and attempts to embarrass; however, for women, the most common forms of harassment were threats of sexual violence and stalking. Alarmingly, only 40% of the women surveyed by Pew claimed to have addressed their most recent inci- dent of harassment (Duggan 2014). Harassment of any kind is abhorrent, but the harms of online harassment presents women with a double bind: be catcalled outside on the street, or demeaned in the comfort of your living room. On an individual level, harassment can have negative efects on self-esteem and interfere with a person’s quality of life. From a group S. R. Stroud (*) • W. Cox Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA