Yes, it was probably partly backlash against the way skepticism of feminism is treated by much of the media as either heresy or misogyny. And with everything t

Yes, it was probably partly backlash against the way skepticism of feminism is treated by much of the media as either heresy or misogyny. And with everything that happens online, there's thousands of people on either side, throwing mud at a small number of targets. An internet famous person gets treated like a politician or celebrity, without the benefits (and without necessarily having signed up to it). And as with anything 4chan gets involved in, there was some pretty nasty trolling.