don't worry, females are probably responsible for half of that other stuff too.
I was merely saying that name calling and harassment are often completely different mindsets.
However, I do believe that women are just as likely and willing to participate when they do end up in these communities. It's just that they're less likely to do so, just as they're less likely to end up working as programmers.
Then why is it so hard for people to believe that women on the internet are just as abusive as men on the internet? The internet is a community, or community of communities.
Is it? I don't find it hard to believe in the slightest, at least based on what I see on twitter and similar sites with a more even gender distribution.
Also, I don't believe you can draw any useful conclusions on the presence or lack of women in the aforementioned fringe communities. These communities are extremely small, and the extremes of abuse perpetrated by their members are vanishingly rare.
Is it because so many anti-gamergaters engaged in it?