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A more accurate title: Half of misogynistic abuse aimed at female twitter users in the UK found to be from other women. The reality is that, in other countrie

by beloch 10y ago

A more accurate title: Half of misogynistic abuse aimed at female twitter users in the UK found to be from other women. The reality is that, in other countries, things may be very different. Also, this study in no way attempted to quantify all forms of online abuse. Heck, if women are this bad to each other, they may actually commit well more than half of all abuse if you include abuse aimed at males. Boys can be pretty nasty to each other too, but I suspect more of it is "offline".

vonklaus 10y ago
I think the most important thing we can do is continue to try and bring people together by grouping them based on a single feature and then ascribing traits to them, then arguing about it on the internet. We need to keep telling our children to be nice to "black people" and "women are mean to men" and sometimes(honestly a lot of times) "men are mean to women". We need to start censoring the internet immeadiately and NEVER identify as a diverse difficultly grouped species that cooperates and gets a long. Now more than ever we need Democrats to hate Republicans, conservatives to hate transexuals and people who use Vim to continue to identify as the gods they are against inferior morons who use Emacs. also, PCMaster race, if you use linux or microsoft you need to die. This should be the next X Prize, finding interesting arbitrary (or obvious) distinctions and continuing to allow them to detract from solving real problems. edit: inb4 Poe's law. If you didn't catch it, this is frustration-sarcasm.
lucozade 10y ago
The study was done globally. From the write up on the Demos website it looks like they got similar results internationally as they did in the UK (caveated by them not having released the study when I looked, just a summary). It did provoke an interesting reaction in the Guardian. To paraphrase, if it's just men then they're sad loners picking on women. But as it's women too then it must be due to a problem in our education system. They then went on to blame our ex Education Secretary but that's probably a contractual thing for Guardian writers.
dang 10y ago
We've used your title suggestion but twisted it to fit 80 chars.

by beloch 10y ago

vonklaus 10y ago

I think the most important thing we can do is continue to try and bring people together by grouping them based on a single feature and then ascribing traits to them, then arguing about it on the internet. We need to keep telling our children to be nice to "black people" and "women are mean to men" and sometimes(honestly a lot of times) "men are mean to women". We need to start censoring the internet immeadiately and NEVER identify as a diverse difficultly grouped species that cooperates and gets a long. Now more than ever we need Democrats to hate Republicans, conservatives to hate transexuals and people who use Vim to continue to identify as the gods they are against inferior morons who use Emacs. also, PCMaster race, if you use linux or microsoft you need to die. This should be the next X Prize, finding interesting arbitrary (or obvious) distinctions and continuing to allow them to detract from solving real problems. edit: inb4 Poe's law. If you didn't catch it, this is frustration-sarcasm.

lucozade 10y ago

The study was done globally. From the write up on the Demos website it looks like they got similar results internationally as they did in the UK (caveated by them not having released the study when I looked, just a summary). It did provoke an interesting reaction in the Guardian. To paraphrase, if it's just men then they're sad loners picking on women. But as it's women too then it must be due to a problem in our education system. They then went on to blame our ex Education Secretary but that's probably a contractual thing for Guardian writers.

dang 10y ago

We've used your title suggestion but twisted it to fit 80 chars.