Interesting stats and proof that men get more online harrasment than women.

Marcruise · 2014-08-24T20:02:57+00:00

You can download the spreadsheet (XLSX file) or read their findings here. I'll quote the juicy bit:

An analysis of 2 million tweets by the think tank Demos reveals that male public figures are several times more likely than women to receive abuse on Twitter.

The think-tank analysed 2,006,616 tweets over a two-week period that were sent to a selection of the most prominent and widely-followed public figures on Twitter.

The study included celebrities, politicians, journalists and musicians – specifically chosen to ensure an equal number - roughly one million - were aimed at each gender.

It found:

2.54% of the tweets containing the @ username of male public figures contained abuse, compared to only 0.95% of the tweets received by prominent women.

Over 1 in 20 (5.19%) of the tweets sent to male celebrities included abuse, compared with 1 in 70 (1.37%) aimed at female celebrities.

Journalism is the only category where women received more abuse than men, with female journalists and TV news presenters receiving roughly three times as much abuse as their male counterparts.

Men were much more likely to troll public figures via social media. Three-quarters of the abuse received by prominent men, and over 60% of abuse received by women, was tweeted by men.

Piers Morgan, Ricky Gervais and Katie Hopkins were three of the most likely celebrities to receive abuse.

SporkTornado · 2014-08-24T21:06:19+00:00

Men are more likely to be trolled, but women complain more.

BaconCatBug · 2014-08-24T23:55:07+00:00

And STILL they spin it like men are to blame for all that is ill with the world. "Oh, they get more abuse, BUT LOOK THEY ALSO DO IT THAT MEANS THEY ARE THE BADS!"

KngpinOfColonProduce · 2014-08-24T21:57:26+00:00

Thanks for the find, OP. I suspected men got as much or more abuse online, they just don't whine about it.

rogerwatersbitch · 2014-08-24T19:29:50+00:00

Good find..would love to actually see the study. But the results are pretty much what I thought they would be.

Also, its interesting to point out that they also say males are more likely to attack males, and women more likely to attack women.

pinkturnstoblu · 2014-08-24T19:15:07+00:00

Interesting. It's not always as cut-and-dried as some feminists might have you believe (though even this article states that female journalists are at particular risk for harassment).

In any case, it seems men also do most of the harassing/trolling.

DavidByron2 · 2014-08-25T04:33:17+00:00

This story is really really imprecisely worded and I don't think any of it's claims add up to anything.

Ma99ie · 2014-08-24T19:39:50+00:00

I don't know. The harassment right here on men's rights can get pretty intense.

Title	Interesting stats and proof that men get more online harrasment than women.
Author	Scott2508
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Date	August 24, 2014 6:47 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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