Not a great study or perhaps it's the reporting on the research.
>They found perpetrators of online hate were more likely to hold misogynistic attitudes, and almost twice as likely to agree with the following:
... and then defining something which people see from time to time in real life ... as a symptom of misogynistic is a bit BS. It only holds water if it were meant in absolute terms. We all know plenty of arseholes ... it's not gender specific, some of them are women.
There probably have been groups of people who didn't know how to accept there are double standards at times, become obsessed and bitter and gravitate towards others who share similar angst.
Good manners seem harder to teach, instil or diffuse into the broader online population these days. Most internet discussions could be robust and people could disagree and remain polite, with an understanding that some days certain people have had a terrible day and just venting and in a day or so they'll be back to their regular self - too many places the ban or bad report button, just leans them to being bruised forever on.
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[ 0.37 ms ] story [ 243 ms ] thread>They found perpetrators of online hate were more likely to hold misogynistic attitudes, and almost twice as likely to agree with the following:
... and then defining something which people see from time to time in real life ... as a symptom of misogynistic is a bit BS. It only holds water if it were meant in absolute terms. We all know plenty of arseholes ... it's not gender specific, some of them are women.
There probably have been groups of people who didn't know how to accept there are double standards at times, become obsessed and bitter and gravitate towards others who share similar angst.
Good manners seem harder to teach, instil or diffuse into the broader online population these days. Most internet discussions could be robust and people could disagree and remain polite, with an understanding that some days certain people have had a terrible day and just venting and in a day or so they'll be back to their regular self - too many places the ban or bad report button, just leans them to being bruised forever on.