Posted on 05/27/2016 1:37:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women, a study suggests.
Over a three-week period, think tank counted the number of uses of two particular words as indicators of misogyny.
It found evidence of large-scale misogyny, with 6,500 unique users targeted by 10,000 abusive tweets in the UK alone.
Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said that tackling abuse is a priority.
The research comes as UK MPs - Yvette Cooper, Maria Miller, Stella Creasy, Jess Philips - alongside former Liberal Democrat minister Jo Swinson, launch their Reclaim the Internet campaign, in response to growing public concern about the impact of hate speech and abuse on social media.
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“I pay good money to get women to talk dirty to me.”
You mean I can get paid for that????
:-P
Gracious, no. :)
Women hold on to grudges forever. Men get it out and then, 5 minutes later can go out for beers together. I know I’m generalizing, but there’s some truth to it.
CC
“Twitter Abuse - ‘50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women’”
Speaking of abuse, has anyone ever noticed that 40% of sick leave occurs on Mondays and Fridays?
And the other 50% are from who?
Perhaps the words aren’t really misogynistic if so many women use them.
I’m sorry. You don’t know who the hell anyone is on social media. It is so easy to fake being what you aren’t. That’s how the gays get away with looking like millions instead of the few thousands they really are.
Tep, stop giving it away for free!!!
Tep Yep whatever, just do not give it away for free. LOL.
Me ow
Its not misogynistic if they actually are sluts and whores.
OH, please! We ladies are ruthless and down right nasty when we feel justified to be.
But I have never seen such disgusting behavior from my fellow female species until the Internet with Facebook. Now it is a free for all.
The tweets could contain one of the words and not be misogynistic. The article contains the words. Presumably the write up of the study does.
But it is against traditional manners.
Not really. Plenty of sluts and whores have been called sluts and whores. It is calling a spade a spade.
Maybe in your hippie counterculture world, but sorry traditional manners do not support you.
Women are brutal to each other
Especially fat ugly women to thin pretty women
In soccer mom world
There never has been anything wrong with calling things what they are.
I’m wondering when there will be a study on “misandry” based solely on whether tweets contained the words “dick” or “bastard”.
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