Particularly interesting that whilst women were more that twice as likely to report being very upset, no gap in negative life impacts.
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I wonder if 'upset feelings' could be measured objectively, how much difference there would be. Probably some.
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But how much comes down to a gendered difference in willingness to admit to feeling upset? Even to oneself.
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And whether 'upset' itself has gendered connotations. I have seen it used in the US to include a wider range of emotions than in the UK
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I see it used to include angry as well as tearful, shaken, sad, distressed more in the US. And it is a US study.
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But if we see the sentence 'The way s/he spoke to me really upset me', do we imagine this to be more likely to come from a man or a woman?
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In my experience, it would be much more likely to be a woman whilst a man more likely to choose 'tougher' words. Pissed me off. Got to me.
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I'm certainly concerned about current feminist 'victim' narratives but doubt this difference primarily a feminism-induced cultural construct
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Which is not to say that we should promote the idea that women are less able to deal with words online & should be protected from them.
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Do you mean more sexual comments coz she's a woman whilst men get more violent language coz men?
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If it were reversed and men got more sexual language &women more violent language, I think the gender gap for being upset wld be even bigger
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Reminds me of that study that said around half of online harassment was perpetrated by women.
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