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Maybe not surprising, but still depressing: Women continue to be harassed online, even when mayor. And the insults tend often to be irrelevant to the job. Like "fat."
‘Worthless. Gutless. Loser.’ Online attacks escalate when the mayor is a woman.
By Addel Hasasn
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s inbox makes abundantly clear how personally venomous local politics has become. “‘Fat,’ ‘sick,’ ‘worthless,’ ‘gutless,’ ‘loser,’ ” she said, reciting some of the insults that have been leveled at her since becoming mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, in April...
And one factor — gender — stood out above all others as a predictor of whether a mayor would be targeted. Using a statistical analysis that took into account factors like time in office, the researchers concluded that female mayors were more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to experience psychological abuse and almost three times as likely to experience physical violence.
Women are responsible for half of all misogynistic Tweets using the words "**** and *****", a new study has found.
The study, performed by respected UK think tank Demos, monitored UK Twitter over three weeks and found that found 6,500 unique users were targeted by 10,000 misogynistic and aggressive Tweets.
50 per cent of the aggressors were women.
according to the study above, women are equally as vicious on twitter as men. half of these attacks on the female mayor were likely made by women.
Last edited by texan2yankee; 12-28-2019 at 06:43 AM..
Personally, I have found women to be more vicious than men. First observed this in junior high school.....and all the way through to the last job I had before retirement. What makes them worse is that when a man doesn't like you and works against you, it's obvious. Women....they're sneaky and two-faced, and run a covert assault in opposition until it's too late.
Maybe not surprising, but still depressing: Women continue to be harassed online, even when mayor. And the insults tend often to be irrelevant to the job. Like "fat."
‘Worthless. Gutless. Loser.’ Online attacks escalate when the mayor is a woman.
By Addel Hasasn
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s inbox makes abundantly clear how personally venomous local politics has become. “‘Fat,’ ‘sick,’ ‘worthless,’ ‘gutless,’ ‘loser,’ ” she said, reciting some of the insults that have been leveled at her since becoming mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, in April...
And one factor — gender — stood out above all others as a predictor of whether a mayor would be targeted. Using a statistical analysis that took into account factors like time in office, the researchers concluded that female mayors were more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to experience psychological abuse and almost three times as likely to experience physical violence.
Women are responsible for half of all misogynistic Tweets using the words "**** and *****", a new study has found.
The study, performed by respected UK think tank Demos, monitored UK Twitter over three weeks and found that found 6,500 unique users were targeted by 10,000 misogynistic and aggressive Tweets.
50 per cent of the aggressors were women.
according to the study above, women are equally as vicious on twitter as men. half of these attacks on the female mayor were likely made by women.
very interesting.. sorta puts OP’s pity party in a different light
Maybe not surprising, but still depressing: Women continue to be harassed online, even when mayor. And the insults tend often to be irrelevant to the job. Like "fat."
‘Worthless. Gutless. Loser.’ Online attacks escalate when the mayor is a woman.
By Addel Hasasn
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s inbox makes abundantly clear how personally venomous local politics has become. “‘Fat,’ ‘sick,’ ‘worthless,’ ‘gutless,’ ‘loser,’ ” she said, reciting some of the insults that have been leveled at her since becoming mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, in April...
And one factor — gender — stood out above all others as a predictor of whether a mayor would be targeted. Using a statistical analysis that took into account factors like time in office, the researchers concluded that female mayors were more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to experience psychological abuse and almost three times as likely to experience physical violence.
Well it's not like anyone held up a mock, bloodied and decapitated head of this mayor. Or wrote a play where multiple attackers stabbed her to death. Or wrote a rap song song where she was makeup'd in clown face while the rap artist pointed a gun at her head. Or had a teacher in a classroom point a water gun at her on screen, and yell obscenities while she pulled the trigger multiple times. Or had one of the mayors' security detail hate her so much that the security agent said she wouldn't take a bullet for her.
If her life and/or physical safety is threatened then those threats need to be followed up on. If she is being called insulting names then she needs to shut up, grow up and get busy doing the business of the city.
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