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Since the post is framed as a gender issue, let me offer another view that I think is evidently good to remember in the conversation: according to studies, men

• gouggoug 9y ago
  There was a great blog post[0] recently regarding the recent Aziz Ansari story about sexual harassement. (If you haven't heard of this case, I encourage you to Google it.) It made a really great point that I believe -whichever side (if any) you take in the Ansari story- is very enlightening (at least it was for me), and that potentially applies to your study. I can't possibly explain it as well as the author, so please go read the article, but, in essence, the author explains that women have been conditioned from the beginning of time to endure pain and as such don't report it as much. The study you linked to, is based on reports of men and women, and indeed, according to this study, men are more likely to experience online harassement. But now, is it because men report it more because they are more sensitive than women to online harassement, or are they really more likely to be harassed online? When I ask myself, "have I ever been harassed online?", I can definitely say "absolutely never". This is of course only my personal experience, but I'm eager to believe the exact opposite the study you linked to concludes: women are definitely more likely to experience online harassement, and OP's article is one demonstration of it. [0] http://theweek.com/articles/749978/female-price-male-pleasure http://theweek.com/articles/749978/female-price-male-pleasur...
  • yorwba 9y ago
    The study doesn't say that women are less likely to experience sexual harassment online, but harassment overall: Men and women experience and respond to online harassment in different ways. Overall, men are somewhat more likely to experience any form of harassing behavior online: 44% of men and 37% of women have experienced at least one of the six behaviors this study uses to define online harassment. In terms of specific experiences, men (30%) are modestly more likely than women (23%) to have been called offensive names online or to have received physical threats (12% vs. 8%). By contrast, women – and especially young women – encounter sexualized forms of abuse at much higher rates than men. Some 21% of women ages 18 to 29 report being sexually harassed online, a figure that is more than double the share among men in the same age group (9%). In addition, roughly half (53%) of young women ages 18 to 29 say that someone has sent them explicit images they did not ask for. For many women, online harassment leaves a strong impression: 35% of women who have experienced any type of online harassment describe their most recent incident as either extremely or very upsetting, about twice the share among men (16%).
  • baud147258 9y ago
    The Aziz Ansari story is more a bad date than actual harassement.
    • baud147258 9y ago
      But I think this story show the power imbalance between men and women that enable the real cases of harassement.
• urahara 9y ago
  General harrasment, not sexual one. Women are significantly more likely to experience sexual harrasment. This is what this research states.