It must be so hard being the victim of everything, especially when no one is talking about you. The tweet: https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/545122685651804160 The interesting follow up: https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/545124946520051712 IT'S ALL ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGKig0mMzM

People are capable of being as bad as each other. Who'd have thunk it. As an interesting side note, you'll notice they've come to these numbers by using a very broad definition of 'misogyny' for some of their examples (which I disagree with). Even with this very broad definition they still only come up with relatively small numbers compared to the total volume of tweets. Articles: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/26/women-are-responsible-for-half-of-online-abuse-study-finds/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/26/half-of-misogynistic-tweets-sent-by-women-study-finds Demos study "Misogyny on Twitter": http://www.demos.co.uk/files/MISOGYNY_ON_TWITTER.pdf Demos study is 'flawed' if your hat is made of tin foil: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-27/research-claiming-women-are-half-of-online-abusers-'flawed'/7452568 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-27/clementine-ford/7453188 Twitter analytics: http://www.sacdesignet.com/twitter-user-statistics-the-biggest-study-yet/ http://www.beevolve.com/twitter-statistics/ PEW research: http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/ Why women use sexually aggressive language towards each other: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/science/a-cold-war-fought-by-women.html?src=recg&_r=1& http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ab.20413/abstract https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/03/980326075743.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110224121907.htm http://thoughtcatalog.com/james-b-barnes/2014/09/new-study-proves-that-men-dont-slut-shame-rich-women-do/ The 'will be updated in two weeks' broadband commission report for the UN: http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-wg-gender-report2015.pdf The terrible version is still live though if you want to go laugh at how bad it is, apparently UN women are still standing by it: http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2015/cyber_violence_gender%20report.pdf A different study that found a 60:40 split for misogyny on twitter. 60% perpetuated by women: https://www.brandwatch.com/2016/05/react-will-twitter-ever-free-misogynistic-abuse/ Donations are greatly appreciated and enable me to acquire the delicious berries I need to live: https://www.patreon.com/TealDeer Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJmC2xHN7Lo