Warning: The video linked below is hard to watch.

Last week, the website JustNotSports.com released a video (shown above), of men reading out loud comments that were made online to two female sportswriters. The sportswriters, Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro, had seen the tweets prior to filming the video, but the men reading them out loud had not. The video itself is very hard to watch, and the men reading the tweets seemed to have a very difficult time doing so.

The video was made to raise awareness for how women in sports are treated for simply doing their jobs. Some of the tweets were cruel, yet not unbearable. However, as the video progressed, the tweets being read were harder and harder for the readers to read to the ladies they were directed toward. Many of the men paused before saying them out loud or even apologized on behalf of the tweeter. The sportswriters took the insults very well, although some of them seemed to hit harder than others (which is understandable, considering the content).

The hashtag #MoreThanMean (which the video encourages people to tweet and respond) was trending on Twitter all day Monday, April 25, which consisted of tweets from people showing their support for the two journalists. Messages to Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro included many from fellow female sportscasters. Liz Loza, a fantasy football analyst for Yahoo Fantasy, tweeted "continually impressed and inspired by @SarahSpain and @JulieDiCaro. Watch and learn."

While scrolling through Spain’s tweets, I noticed the majority from Monday were in reply to men saying they had no sympathy for her, and maybe she should “get thicker skin or quit.” Spain’s reply was, "my skin is thicker than rhinoceros leather. Just b/c I CAN take it, doesn't mean I should have to. Why defend hate?” DiCaro’s Twitter was exactly the same. Twitter user @Lordvizz tweeted in response to the video, “This goes 4 every1 tho .. Kobe Bryant gets called a rapist everyday on social media .. I hate people,” to which DiCaro replied, “Yes. He was accused of rape. I get threatened WITH rape. Do you see the difference?”

I hope videos such as this one help raise awareness about something as horrible as this. This is an issue for not just female sportswriters, but people in general. The video expresses how easy it is to say horrible things—including death threats—online, but saying it to their face is much harder.