>Then why is it so hard for people to believe that women on the internet are just as abusive as men on the internet? Is it? I don't find it hard to believe in

>Then why is it so hard for people to believe that women on the internet are just as abusive as men on the internet? Is it? I don't find it hard to believe in the slightest, at least based on what I see on twitter and similar sites with a more even gender distribution. Also, I don't believe you can draw any useful conclusions on the presence or lack of women in the aforementioned fringe communities. These communities are extremely small, and the extremes of abuse perpetrated by their members are vanishingly rare.