I think there is a genuine difference in how men and women interact, online and off - different tolerances for confrontation might be part of it. More confront

I think there is a genuine difference in how men and women interact, online and off - different tolerances for confrontation might be part of it. More confrontations can lead to trolling or unnecessary flame wars, but also avoid the kind of misunderstandings that lead to festering resentment. I think bad behaviour is a human universal, but how it manifests might be quite different from community to community.