And in today’s example of how how hard it is to be a woman on the internet, we have the story of Jessica Valenti, who had the audacity to ask a question about tampons on twitter.

Valenti is the founder of feminist website Feministing, as well as a columnist for The Guardian. A few days ago, she sent out what she assumed was a fairly innocuous tweet about the cost of tampons:

Fair enough question, right? WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Cue massive twitter troll attack.

Valenti compiled the whole saga in a Storify post: