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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.
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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!")?
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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?
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.
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Your comment raises a good question. What was the ratio of men to women in the study 50%/50%? Did women represent 30% of the study but they have a higher proportion of messages that were negative?
H.L. Mencken — 'Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.'
I bet you that 50% of Nazi jokes are made by women as well. I make racist, homophobic and sexist jokes. I am in no way any of those things (and no, I am not interested in being told otherwise by a stranger). Those types of jokes and words are funny because we know they are absurd and a bit innapropriate.
This does not mean that racism, homophobia and sexism do not exist. Simply that the only way to identify those attitudes in a person is to discuss what they believe and watch what they do. A study like this only tells us what is happening on the very surface of pop culture. That is interesting in itself, but you must be very careful what you extract from it. As happens so often, these people have started with a conclusion and would have concluded that it was proven no matter what the data said.
If women engage in "misogynistic speech", it must be because men forced them to internalize misogyny! What other explanation could there be?
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.
Those are the words they are using to determine the percentage of female Twitter bullies?
This doesn't prove women bully other women as much as men do, it just proves women are a lot less creative in their bullying (clearly no one involved in the study is actually a woman receiving any typical form of Twitter misogyny). But I guess that's the kind of idiotic non-science you get from a "think tank"...
It isn't nicknamed dick sauce (or disco horse or other variants) for nothing.
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Thank god people at least laugh at MRAs
Yes they do, but the father's amongst them stop laughing and join them when they loose their children to state sponsored sexual discrimination in family court. The common default custody arrangement in US family law is for the man to get 1 day per week custody and the woman to get 6 days per week, the man then has the privilege of paying the expenses for the extra time that is AUTOMATICALLY awarded to the woman. A recent bill in Florida that tried to change the mandated default to 50/50 custody was vetoed by the governor. Ironically every mainstream feminist organisation in the US continues to lobby in support of the only current example of systemic state sponsored sexual discrimination anyone can point to in the US.
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misogyny, n: Disagreeing with a Feminist.
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