“Sometimes it just gets under your skin.”

"I get loads of this sort of fanmail all the time," said Rempel. "My policy is to not give it a platform, but sometimes it just gets under your skin."

She's also received worse, she said, such as threats of death and rape. Her office reports the worst of it, but mostly these messages aren't talked about so as to not give trolls more attention. But in this case, Rempel had just had enough.

"I don’t want it to come across as victimization, because I don’t feel victimized. It’s just more like, come on, really? Like this person actually thought this was appropriate to send to me."

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