Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds

_____ who harass _____ online are quite literally losers

Did we really need a study for this?

Let's not lose sight of the main point here: that men who harass women online are losers.

Of course they are. My own findings corroborate this.

My personal theory is that the reason the tech industry is so hostile towards women is that it is mostly comprised of "nerds" and "geeks" who, being lower-status in society while usually being part of the dominant group (white men), are much more likely to be aggressive towards people not part of that group, women and people of color.

> “As men often rely on aggression to maintain their dominant social status,” Kasumovic writes, “the increase in hostility towards a woman by lower-status males may be an attempt to disregard a female’s performance and suppress her disturbance on the hierarchy to retain their social rank.”

I would agree with that opinion — I think we've all experienced men behaving stupidly when they overly value and then perceive a threat to their masculinity. Gaming is certainly an activity where we see that to more of an extreme.

I wonder though the breadth of the data though. Other metrics like age, or even play time, and the like may equally as telling.

On your first point, yes - this is also seen in other studies. It's known a the masculine overcompensation thesis. Willer 2011 discusses four studies: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/documents/o...