A female violinist saved 10 years worth of unsolicited, creepy online messages from men

[YoungDemCA]

Every woman who has ventured online is well aware of the perils. Sheltered by anonymity, sexual predators thrive on the Internet, where sending vulgar missives rarely has consequences.

Most women cope by promptly deleting these inappropriate messages and trying to forget about them. Mia Matsumiya, a professional violinist based in Los Angeles, chose to save them.

For the past 10 years, Matsumiya has collected over 1,000 obscene communications she’s received in a folder called “creepiness.” Now she’s sharing them all with the world, on a tongue-in-cheek Instagram account aptly named @perv_magnet.

According to Buzzfeed, Matsumiya gained a following after she started blogging about her band performances in 2003. Since then, she’s received a seemingly endless torrent of sexually aggressive messages on Facebook, MySpace, OkCupid and other sites.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/21/a-woman-violinist-exposes-10-years-of-lewd-fetishizing-messages-from-men-online/

Good on her for doing this.