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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.
Rerun the test with Bitch and Cunt. See if the demographics don't change.
I'm not saying men don't say 'slut' and 'whore'. But those terms are mostly used by catty bitches talking shit about each other. Truth: Most men kind of like sluts, less work. It's women that hate sluts, sluts drive down 'the market' for pussy.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Does anyone else here really dislike the Discourse forum software they're using for the discussion site?
First of all, I find it really slow. I'm sure it doesn't help that it uses Ruby on Rails on the backend, and a lot of JavaScript on the frontend.
Second of all, the flat discussion is really awful. It's frigging impossible to follow the discussion. It's not obvious who is replying to who. This encourages people to post shitty YouTube/Facebook/Twitter-like "I think that ..." comments with no substance, which results in a total lack of real discussion happening.
Third of all, it's so common to see these sites only allow social media signups. Fuck, I don't use social media! It should always be possible to sign up and log in using just a username and a password.
In my opinion, Discourse embodies everything that's wrong with the Millennial/Hipster approach to software and UI design. Something that should be fast and usable instead becomes slow, bloated and inconvenient thanks to their awful ideas.
How the heck are we supposed to engage in discussion on that site if the forum software they've chosen is so, in my experience, shitty?
Women are attracted to patriarchs, though. Leadership personality traits always boosts sexual market value.
And not "broken" women. I have met (and dated) actual broken (by severe child abuse) women (two, to be precise). Those were the only ones I have ever met that authentically disliked alpha-males, and were only happy when intimate with submissive men.