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Half of misogynistic tweets sent by women, study finds

theguardian.com

29 pointsdudul9 comments

>>>angry white men who might follow rightwing groups who are carrying out this kind of misogynistic abuse

Come on. What kind of serious study says stuff like this.

It appears they they determined wether or not it was 'women' saying these things by the fact they follow Justin Bieber. It also appears that the other 50% represent 'angry white men' even though there is no way to determine the racial identity of these people.

Wow, and I've seen some really terrible articles before...

It's The Guardian. Racebaiting is their bread and butter.

the kind that wants your attention more than serious study

No one likes to talk about it, but women are just as mean to other women if not more so than men.

“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”

― H.L. Mencken

it is no different with about any derogatory word, the majority persist because the target group uses the word as well if not more because they have impunity in their use of it.

This reminds me of the HR person complaining that "40% of sick days taken are Mondays and Fridays", blissfully unaware that 40% of all work days are indeed Mondays and Fridays

Misleading article headline is misleading. It's about the usage of specific words, not misogynistic tweets in general:

Half the aggressive tweets using the words slut and whore analysed by social thinktank Demos came from women and girls, research indicates.

Good thing they admitted the scope was very narrow, because there is not much you can glean from particular word uses alone. For example, if one were to tweet:

"Construction work is men's work, and it always will be."

It would be immediately recognized by a human to be a misogynistic statement, even though there is no mention of women nor does the tweet use crude language.

So I wouldn't take this study too seriously, aside from the fact that women can be horrifyingly harsh to each other. Anyone who has spent time with nearly any group of women would figure that out sooner or later.

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