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Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A study performed by researchers behind the Internet campaign "Reclaim," suggests that half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women. The campaign is designed to show the public the impact of hate speech and abuse on social media. They have opened an online forum to discuss ways to make the internet less aggressive, sexist, racist and homophobic. For the study, thinktank Demos counted the number of uses of "slut" and "whore" were used on Twitter to indicate misogyny. They analyzed 1.5 million tweets sent by UK Twitter users over a three-week period and used its own Natural Language Processing tool to filter the tweets in order to determine whether they were used aggressively, conversationally, or for self-identification. Demos found 6,500 unique users being targeted by 10,000 explicitly aggressive and misogynistic tweets. Internationally, they recorded more than 200,000 aggressive tweets using the same terms that were sent to 80,000 people in the same three-week period. It claims it found 50 percent of the abusive tweets to have come from women. BBC also notes a study performed in 2014 from cosmetics firm Dove that found over five million negative tweets were posted about beauty and body image. Four out of five of those tweets were sent by women.
... and misogynistic, again proving the need for for to take gender studies degrees.
Clearly these women have deeply rooted cases of internalized misogyny thanks to the always present patriarchy.
Down with STEM!
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
Because a companion is not a slut because she gets payed and not a whore because she is better educated, has more money, assets and status then you.
Which reminds me of an old russian joke:
A cabbie stops at a traffic light, looks out of the window and notices a beautiful women in a new Mercedes. The women is nicely dressed, and radiates elegance. So the cabbie asks her "Hey miss! What do you do for a living?". "I am a felatio specialist." - she answers. The cabbie tries to grasp the idea and blurts out "So you suck cock?! A cocksucker?". She smiles and asks "Do you have a 7 digit yearly income?", "No" he says. "Ok.. Do you have a summer house in Malta?" - "No" Says the cabbie. "Do you have a new car and the best clothes? Never mind, I can see you don't.", she smiles, "It is you who are the cocksucker dear. I am a felatio specialist".
If women engage in "misogynistic speech", it must be because men forced them to internalize misogyny! What other explanation could there be?
...number of uses of "slut" and "whore"...
A mildly comical story: The word "slut" - spelled exactly like that - means "the end" or "finished" in Danish. It became a bit embarassing once, in the 60es, I think, when they Danish Film Institute produced an educational documentary about life in Greenland in the modern world. It ended with a scene of a young, Greenlandish woman walking away from the camera and and the narrator asking "What does the future hold for her?2 - followed, as in all Danish films, by the word "SLUT". This was distributed to several countries, of course, what else?