Story highlights Ashley Judd says she was attacked by Twitter trolls after a critical tweet about basketball

Judd, an actor and women's rights advocate, has vowed to press charges

Ashley Judd explains in a Mic.com essay (which contains explicit language) how painful abuse in her past influenced her decision to fight back against online sexual harassment.

(CNN) Ashley Judd is taking on Twitter trolls, who she says make social media an unsafe space with violent threats.

Her vow to fight online harassment came after she says she was attacked for expressing an unpopular opinion about a basketball game on Twitter.

Judd, a diehard Kentucky Wildcats fan who regularly attends March Madness games, told MSNBC that her tweet to the effect of "I think Arkansas is playing dirty" was met with vile language and sexually charged threats.

When when I express a stout opinion during #MarchMadness I am called a whore, c---, threatened with sexual violence. Not okay. — ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 15, 2015

Judd retweeted messages that are too explicit to include here.

"Everyone needs to take personal responsibility for what they write and not allowing this misinterpretation and shaming culture on social media to persist," Judd said. "And by the way I'm pressing charges."