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There is a study out today that has found that 50% of misogynistic tweets are being posted by women. Which I thought was quite interesting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36380247
Over a three-week period, think tank Demos 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.
That's quite interesting too, because 6,500 users posting 10,000 misogynistic tweets over a 3 week period certainly sounds like a lot, but when you consider there's 60 million people in this country, I think that's actually a really tiny tiny percentage. And not particularly accurate to describe it as 'large-scale misogyny'.
I actually thought that was quite hopeful that there were so few. Because that's what, 3250 men and 3250 women posting abusive shit online? That's not an epidemic of abuse is it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36380247
Over a three-week period, think tank Demos 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.
That's quite interesting too, because 6,500 users posting 10,000 misogynistic tweets over a 3 week period certainly sounds like a lot, but when you consider there's 60 million people in this country, I think that's actually a really tiny tiny percentage. And not particularly accurate to describe it as 'large-scale misogyny'.
I actually thought that was quite hopeful that there were so few. Because that's what, 3250 men and 3250 women posting abusive shit online? That's not an epidemic of abuse is it?