Study says half of all misogynistic tweets are from women

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BBC report

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36380247

If that research stacks up (if) how depressing is that? It says men needn't tax themselves being misogynistic as there are plenty of handmaidens to do it for them

Using only two words massively skews the results. I get death and rape threats pretty much every day. Most of those don't use the word 'slut' or 'white' so they would've my count in this survey. I'm not exactly thrilled by a woman calling me a whore/slut or bitch but it's not even close to opening my blog or email or Twitter to discover yet another man threatening to rape me because he didn't like something I said.

Media reportage of this has been utterly disgraceful and so clearly designed to shit on women whilst completely erasing male violence. Yet again.

Clearly, that should be 'whore' not 'white'. Fecking predictive text.

Given some of the utter shite women are posting about other women presently in MN, I'm surprised it's not more than half.

I'm really very cross indeed about it.

There's only so much dirty work that can be outsourced to handmaidens. After all, those misogynist women still have to be convinced it is in their own best interest to do something.
Issuing rape threats to other women wouldn't benefit them in any way.

During the Ched Evans debacle on twitter his gf, mother and other women were just as vitriolic as male supporters. His gf actually said she hoped another tweeter's child would be raped so she would understand what 'real rape' is.

Maybe because I was brought up by a mother who believes men are better at technical things and women are nurturing I have had this shit from a woman most of my life.

It's not uncommon, the people cutting the clitoris off little girls is usually a woman and it is often mothers who take their daughters for the procedure.

Agree with thatstewie - wonder what the rape threat results would look like?

His gf actually said she hoped another tweeter's child would be raped so she would understand what 'real rape' is

That's vile, but it's not a rape threat. The woman who wrote it does nothing to increase the amount of rape in the world.
Men who make rape threats declare intent to increase the number of rapes that are committed.

What I mean to say is; even with the most horrible of handmaidens around, if men didn't rape, there'd be almost no rape.