I received some really bad abusive pms from a very aggressive male poster on one of the relationship threads last week. Mumsnet had banned his account and his replacement account several times so he set up yet another one. He seems to have done this to quite a few posters, who disagreed with his notions that women should be happy to offer NSA sex as we are all ugly and can't get a man.
He made references to discussing us on certain groups set up by man to discuss women in that way. I'm a sanguine character who works in the legal field so I was more fascinated than upset, as being given an example of deviance and minor personality disorder is really quite interesting.
But I've noticed that in the last year or so, men have been using all forms of social media to try and instigate hook ups. Facebook is ridiculous and I'm running at 2-3 friend requests a week from men I've never heard of (I don't accept as they send you messages like "are you in bed yet?" only yesterday, a friend of a friend I'd added declared undying love for me, although he lives in another country and I don't know him and claimed to be broken hearted because I "wasn't writing to him", and promptly blocked me!
I now have a vision of hordes of lonely men whose social skills are so terrible, they cannot get a woman, huddled over Internet sites with similar individuals, giving each other advice such as "if you suggest sex to a complete stranger, she'll be really flattered and you'll be in there", only to be followed by bitter criticism of women "ignoring" them. Because clearly for these men, online dating and Tinder isn't working, so they are branching out.