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Why wouldn't they frame the title as "Men and women are equally responsible for misogynistic tweets" instead of singling out women?
Honestly though, equating "online abuse" to some name calling on Twitter is totally disingenuous. What about harassment and rape threats and doxing and swatting?
And yet every time I read a blog or article about "the scourge of online abuse!" they inevitably inflate their claims by including 'name calling' as abuse.
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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.
Is it because so many anti-gamergaters engaged in it?
There's a kindergarten-esque explanation of the phenomenon: humans tend to imitate each other, and we imitate more the people we're around more, and the targets of abuse tend to be around their abusers (or women in an abusive society) so they become like them.
It's not entirely accurate, but similar phenomena are known, most infamously the correlation between being abused as a child and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_violence#Intergenerati...
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Being against female promiscuity while praising or ignoring male promiscuity is definitely 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…
And how do you detect that with a bot that just skims through tweets? Nonsense.
We could, of course, just point out that this is a terrible study in general.
> When an article makes a politically correct claim: "Yeah I totally feel this is true, this one time [insert anecdote here]" > When an article makes a not-so politically correct claim: "Well it's not peer reviewed / look at the paper that's publishing it / this is the wrong definition / headline is misleading / [insert criticism not related to the claim]"
This actually mirrors what I've seen in the workplace over the last 35 years - women can be very brutal to each other (just like men). The main difference I've observed is that men tend to forgive each other and move on. Women seem more likely to hold a grudge. I'm obviously not interested in making sweeping generalizations - and this is not a scientific study.
That is not obvious to me given the antecedent observations that ultimately brought us to this claim.
Anecdotal hand-waving BS: Something I've noticed over the last several years are people who feel so victimized in some way that they actually begin acting like their victimizer. Gay people who anonymously act violently homophobic. Black people who paint KKK images on campus property. Weird. 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 signi…