Comments on: Twitter Stats On Misogyny and Misandry

By: menareangrynow

menareangrynow — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:06:52 +0000

Hi, this was a very interesting examination of how often emotional expressions of hate are brought up by each gender. I myself, am always very interested in such things, so this was pleasant to stumble upon. In my personal experience, there is indeed more hatred of men, in our society, and it is indeed an unexamined and unrecognized problem. That’s why spell check has ‘misogyny’ in its dictionary, and lacks ‘misandry’. Most people don’t know what to call it, when they see sexism against men, even though it’s actually very pervasive in our culture. Hopefully, that will change one day, and bigoted stereotypes and double standards against men will disappear.

By: Em

Em — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:43:25 +0000

I never knew there was a word to describe hatred of men. It’s such a shame. Can’t we all just get along?

Em, who is a woman who had to explain to a another woman the other day that gender equality does not mean matriarchy.

By: Zaskoda

Zaskoda — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:41:19 +0000

“60% of users are male, 40% are female”

From: http://nmlab.com/download/1/

By: ArchaeoTerra

ArchaeoTerra — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:04:10 +0000

This could also just be related to a possible gender bias in Twitter in general. If more women are posting, or if women post more often, it would skew the results appropriately.

By: tiddleywink

tiddleywink — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:18:51 +0000

FULL DISCLOSURE: I’m female. I’m straight. I wear makeup and high heels and I open my own doors (and hold them open for others, regardless of gender) and pay my own bills. That being said…

That girl you dated was wrong. Both parties should ‘fess up before getting naked with each other, or bear the consequences of their own actions. Why should the guy HAVE to assume that she wants a relationship, but she SHOULDN’T assume that he just wants sex? How is that equality?

Additionally, asking that question wouldn’t indicate to me that you were a misogynist. She had her hackles up about something, and was going to find fault with you eventually. She found it when you inadvertently questioned her ability to take her empowerment into her own hands. I guess you struck a chord.

As for the occurrences of the words; “misogyny” has been around for 400 years, but “misandry” is only 60 years old. Give it time to catch up. 😉

By: Zaskoda

Zaskoda — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:11:13 +0000

I just ran the test again. The stats proved largely the same with one more powerful observation. Of the 15 “I hate women” posts, at least 8 of them were written by women.