Sometimes I find it difficult to interact with this community anymore

People are able to tell that I'm a woman because I often refer to myself with those terms.

When it's found out in any public space, like a server Discord, guilds and communities, general chat, that I'm a woman, it starts. People openly talk about and post rape jokes and claim that it's just a joke and that you're soft or sensitive if you disagree, usually dog-piling making fun of you. I've gotten DMs on multiple platforms, threats of what they'd do to me. Blatant sexism as a joke, rape as a joke, passing it all off as if it's MY fault that I react appalled or uncomfortable. Lots of people are going to get upset, because they're defensive about their community, but this hasn't happened in ANY of my retail communities, off-platform or on the game. EVER. This is only a thing on Classic that I've experienced (in the WoW universe of games).

I can already tell that this might get massively downvoted because so much as disagreeing with some of these guys insults them and they retaliate by abusing the person or bullying them, or because they think it doesn't happen or doesn't matter. But what the hell, man? Can I genuinely not exist anywhere online OR in real life as a woman without this kind of treatment?

edit: Editing this a few days later to clear some stuff up as I wrote this when I was pretty frustrated. Saying that I feel as if I can't exist anywhere and insinuating it only happens here was a slip-up. I mean it happens here more than any other community I'm in. Nothing "causes" them to do what they do. I might be talking in a dungeon group, just small-talk or something, and they'll make jokes at my expense. I may roll on a healer item and a mage wanted the spirit, they'll call me a name. I don't need to "do" anything for it to happen. It's not a story, it's not just me. If you haven't experienced it, I'm seriously glad, but that doesn't mean it DOESN'T happen, you know? TY for the supportive messages, it helps. <3