The artist behind the 'Awards for Good Boys' Instagram isn't afraid to piss off her trolls

The most online among us have heard the adage. "Don't feed the trolls," people say. When someone attacks you online, don't respond. Don't engageThat's what they want.

This is not Shelby Lorman's approach. The writer and artist, who runs the delightful Instagram account Awards for Good Boys and has a book forthcoming from Penguin Random House, frequently reposts and riffs on DMs from people — usually white men — who feel compelled to weigh in on her work.

Lorman, 24, started the Awards for Good Boys account in 2017. Since then, she's been posting regular cartoons skewering the "good boy": the ostensibly "progressive" dude whose shitty treatment of actual people doesn't dovetail with his performative feminist politics. Read more...

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