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In my almost 40 years of living, I've learned one thing about women, they love attention, and you better learn when is necessary to give it to them and when is better for both if you ignore them.
It might still be useful to say, since some men occasionally need reminding that women are humans with human behavior.
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Is there any research that show being peer reviewed in fact makes a difference? General speaking, I would think research should just speak for itself.
Generally speaking, you think... well that's nice. Meanwhile, in the world of the scientific method, the issue is that everyone needs to know that you didn't just write something down for fun or profit. If your results can't be replicated... thbbpt.
Results aren't replicated during peer review, are they?
I'd guess it's just a very small minority of people who are like that, but online, in aggregate form, it could turn into a significant number. It'd be interesting to see some stats about this.
The title should probably reflect the fact that the study focuses specifically on Tweets containing the words "slut" and "whore"
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don't worry, females are probably responsible for half of that other stuff too.
I don't see it that way at all. I think the sort of casually calling other women slags and hoes or whatever (ie normalised internalised misogyny) is a very different ball game to the gamergate style evil shit that happens.
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Generally speaking, you think... well that's nice. Meanwhile, in the world of the scientific method, the issue is that everyone needs to know that you didn't just write something down for fun or profit. If your results can't be replicated... thbbpt.
> If your results can't be replicated Results aren't replicated during peer review, are they?
A woman calling another a whore is misogyny? Being against promiscuity is misogyny?
Edit: Additionally, being against both in the current society is, while not necessarily misogynist in itself, contributing to a misogynistic society - there's many more people who will speak up to tell a man that the weird-ass person who told them they're bad for being promiscuous is wrong then would tell a woman the same, the result being that telling a woman that she's bad for enjoying sex has more impact than telling a man the same. You don't actually see many masculine-gendered terms for shaming the enjoyment of sex, and those that do exist are not used in a derogatory context very often.
Headline seems a bit misleading. "Half of online abuse" seems to suggest that this study is representative of the internet as a whole instead of just twitter. While the findings are still worthwhile, I think we'd see different results if the study could have included sites like 4chan, reddit, tumblr or even facebook. Of course, there are practical challenges to getting accurate demographic information on those platfo…
I'd like to know what percentage of online abuse was directed at women. My hunch would have been 50/50 for dealing it out, but I am not so sure the split is even for taking it.
The article does link to one investigation from The Guardian about abusive comments left on articles written by journalists whose genders are known.
https://i.imgur.com/9sxIFSP.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Ve6XWIa.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3VWWYqZ.jpg
Obviously, with articles like these, what kind of comments do they expect?
