Stop, Drop, and Troll

Francesca Singer
4 min readJan 2, 2020

Don’t read the comments section, and if you do, don’t take the bait.

There you are, furiously typing a clever, well-thought-out response to some bigoted jerkface you’ve stumbled across spewing nastiness online. Chances are, you’re in the comments section of an article that seemed like a cut-and-dried piece to you. Let’s say, a local news article about a cyclist riding home late at night who was run over by a driver who fled…

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Francesca Singer

Freelance Writer. Feminist former farmer. American immigrant in France. Dangling in the middle of the endless tug of war between tragedy and comedy.