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Ashley Judd: Women can’t talk about sports online without receiving threats of sexual violence

Actress and Kentucky Wildcats fan Ashley Judd is firing back at those who posted threats and hateful comments online after she tweeted that she thought Arkansas...

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Actress and Kentucky Wildcats fan Ashley Judd is firing back at those who posted threats and hateful comments online after she tweeted that she thought Arkansas was playing dirty in its SEC basketball matchup with her alma mater.

In an online essay posted Thursday on mic.com, Judd says she routinely copes with tweets that “sexualize, objectify, insult, degrade and even physically threaten me.”

When when I express a stout opinion during #MarchMadness I am called a whore, c—, threatened with sexual violence. Not okay.

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 15, 2015

But she writes, “this particular tsunami of gender-based violence and misogyny flooding my Twitter feed was overwhelming.”

Judd said this week in an interview on MSNBC that she planned to press charges if she could.

She wrote, “I must, as a woman who was once a girl, as someone who uses the Internet, as a citizen of the world, address personally, spiritually, publicly and even legally, the ripe dangers that invariably accompany being a woman and having an opinion about sports or, frankly, anything else.”