Gendered Conversation in a Social Game-Streaming Platform (Twitch)

Unfortunately not surprising, but saddening. "Our results indicate that female channels are characterized by words about physical appearance, the body, relationships, and greetings while male channels are characterized by game-related words. Male channels are also associated with many uncommon words, suggesting that the male channel chats are more diverse while the content in female channels share common words that signal objectification. In sum, both our exploratory analysis and classification exercise suggests that the answer to our first main research question — “are the chat messages that streamers receive gendered?” — is “yes”."

Teenage boys like to talk about teenage girls in a sexual way. News at 11.

Is this really a surprise to anyone? What's more ridiculous to me is all of these movements to change laws about sexism on the Internet, when in most cases, it involves a 12 year old boy trolling everyone, rather than an adult.

Are adults incapable of fending off a verbal attack from a young teenager? If so, we have serious problems.