Dan Harmon Unloads on Trolls Harassing Rick and Morty‘s Female Writers: “I Loathe These People”
Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty
Rick and Morty’s writers’ room recently made a move towards gender balance and away from boys club, and the results so far in the show’s long-awaited third season have been superlative. But as EW points out, after the season’s second and third episodes, “Rickmancing the Stone” and “Pickle Rick,” were credited to female Rick and Morty writers Jane Becker and Jessica Gao, respectively, both scribes were attacked on Twitter and doxxed by angry, misogynistic fans.
Show co-creator Dan Harmon spoke to EW about this awfulness, and did not hold back in condemning the trolls, calling their behavior “disgusting.” “I’m on a Twitter sabbatical, so the last thing I saw about that was [the Reddit thread detailing the harassment], and I’ve seen the tweets they’ve sent to the female writer,” Harmon told EW. “I was familiar going into the third season, having talked to Felicia Day, that any high-profile women get doxxed, they get harassed, they get threatened, they get slandered. And part of it is a testosterone-based subculture patting themselves on the back for trolling these women. Because to the extent that you get can get a girl to shriek about a frog you’ve proven girls are girly and there’s no crime in assaulting her with a frog because it’s all in the name of proving something. I think it’s all disgusting.”
Harmon continued, pulling no punches in his assessment of this unfortunate subset of his show’s fan base: