Why Do Anonymous Twitter Trolls Use Anime Avatars?
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> In the eyes of her persecutors, the author Maris Kreizman was guilty of the following counts: being a woman, being Jewish, criticizing Donald Trump, and tweeting at all.
Internet trolls aren't persecutors -- they're kids that say mean things on public forums.
They don't care in the slightest that she's a woman or Jewish -- those are just easily identifiable characteristics that can be used for insults and slurs.
Not that these trolls need any defense but 'and tweeting at all' is honestly insulting to the trolls. Most of them probably don't even know or care who this woman is outside of a screencap of her tweet appearing on some image board. The entire culture is based around anonymity and shunning identity in favor of ideas.
This is true for all bullies and the people they bully, though, and not just women.
There are certainly women who look down on men and bully them for being men as well, but it doesn't seem to ever rise to this level of cruelty.
It's equally vicious, but it's not seen as equally cruel. And the idea that all trolls are male doesn't hold. Women are far more cruel to each other than men are to them. Somehow the Mean Girls of the internet never get considered.
Here's an only half joking list about how to identify a hacker without even seeing them play:
Many people use this as proof that the tech industry and men are sexist. In reality, it's mostly the work of teenagers with too much time on their hand and mentally ill individuals.
I wish we could stop lumping in an entire industry and gender for the actions of a few that may not even be in the industry at all.