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Someone asked for the actual numbers to back the claims that apparent females get more harassment online. The study itself: www.enre.umd.edu/content/rmeyer-assessing.pdf
But obviously, anyone not wanting to use their wallet name online is just being dishonest.
But obviously, anyone not wanting to use their wallet name online is just being dishonest.
Haven't been able to shake the hangover from dealing with Nymwars stuff, especially with all the blog posts going around about abuse toward women. But if the anti-nyms want research, here's research. Female names get 25 times the abusive messages of male names.
So if you're a guy with a guy name, for every gross message or comment you get, women get 25 of them.
And I'm pretty sure that few of the ones you get are offers to rape you.
So if you're a guy with a guy name, for every gross message or comment you get, women get 25 of them.
And I'm pretty sure that few of the ones you get are offers to rape you.
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In my own stretches of poverty in the past decade, I've tended to think of myself as "distressed gentlefolk" rather than "bum". Having not been the first long enough to smell like the second.Sep 5, 2011
rone+1David: plenty of well-off people in our line of work who smell like bums.Sep 5, 2011
I would welcome that robot tone analyzer. Of course, it would need to be applied not just to responses but also to the statements preceding those responses. For example, if a preceding statement asserts "a study" as "proof" -- despite the experimental design of that study being called into question and without any attention paid to resolving that question -- the robot tone analyzer might identify such a statement as possessing a "because I'm the mommy and I say so" tone. Likewise, the robot tone analyzer might identify a retort to such a statement as possessing a "shut your pie hole and make me a sammich" tone. Perhaps, gender typical forms of verbal bullying have some correlation to corresponding gender typical forms of verbal bullying. Only the numbers will tell.
Since others have brought it up, I would also like to see data in such studies further broken down into race/ethnicity and age. Personally, I wouldn't hypothesize that most net discourse with women's names to be exactly like net discourse with men's names. However, I would be interested -- as a rational, scientific thinker -- to know to what degree and under what circumstance such events occur and among what populations.
No doubt such information would be of great use to Google+ as a guide to how to create a real name based social network optimally free from harassment.
Of course, until such studies exists we don't have "actual numbers to back the claims". We have nothing scientific, nothing rational. Until then, we have primarily just, heh, hysterics and old wives tales.Sep 5, 2011
+John Everett I suspect that you're really a bot.Sep 5, 2011
+David Gerard My mother refers to this as "genteel poverty" and says is means that she gets to sit and drink tea in her old house with dusty lace curtains and shabby antiques, with far too many cats, between doing all her own housework and fretting about paying her bills.Sep 5, 2011- The advantage of being really poor and honest about it is that you're more likely to have developed the skills that make being poor less disastrous. Or at least get to fly a FSLN flag non-ironically.Sep 5, 2011
