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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.
Just because someone says something sexist or funny does not make him a "misogynist". I know lots of people who say sexist stuff, some of which is true, but no one I know actually hates women.
Thanks, Slashdot, for continuing to misuse the term.
Could the terms not have been used — if only in some cases — to indicate unhealthy promiscuity or express some other disapproval (e.g. "He is such a ratings-whore!")?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
So when do they study misandry and start to treat that as seriously as misogyny? You can't be gender inclusive when you officially ignore hate speech and discrimination against half the population.
If 50% of all misogynistic tweets come from women, then it can fairly easily be extrapolated that the whole of modern culture hates women equally. If that's the case, maybe it's the women that need to change?
Somehow, I don't imagine this woman is a conservative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
From what we know of TrigglyPuff, she's not either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In some places in the middle-east for example? Sure... yet that's not where we usually hear screams of patriarchy from/about.
What then of the women supporting Sanders 'for the boys'?
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
The truth is that the VAST majority of women have no interest in the rules or roles that feminists want to impose upon them. It has nothing to do with "conservatism". Women freely choose to engage in objectifying themselves. It was one of the earliest forms of women's lib.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
The way society is today, in most cases, only a black person is likely to remain socially (and perhaps physically) unchallenged if calling a black person, including themselves, a "nigger." It fairly clearly follows that only a woman is likely to be able to call another woman a slut under the same broad umbrella of conceptual shared circumstances.
Sometimes a black person may mean "nigger" just as it is defined: ignorant, etc. Or some variation of ironic racist classing, inclusive or not. Sometimes, it's a term of endearment.
Same for women calling each other sluts.
Speaking as a man, if some woman called me a slut, I'd be all like "oh, you bet. No doubt at all. Totally." Without any worries about it. Because I aspire to sluthood. I would totally be down for it... er, up for it... If some woman within my esthetic preference range were to say "hey, wanna screw like bunnies?" :)
Because there is a difference in the male and female perception of who calls whom, what, and why, and how our various self-image / social preconceptions integrate with all that. Turns out we might want to consider each other's feelings, etc. Not to mention potential ass-kicking issues.
It isn't nicknamed dick sauce (or disco horse or other variants) for nothing.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
No, we've learned by now that not the word matters, but who uses it. And it sure wasn't a Feminist that taught us, it was the late George Carlin, philosopher and wise cracker.
"You know how Eddie Murphy talks about niggers? Does that mean Eddie Murphy is a racist? OF course not. Eddie Murphy isn't a racist. He's a nigger"
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
misogyny, n: Disagreeing with a Feminist.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.