Study Finds That Men Who Attack Women Online Are, Literally, Losers

[MADem]

53. I don't want to derail from the principal thesis of this thread--which speaks to the

misogynistic sexist/threats and violence bullshit that women have to endure from jerks who likely lack the social skills to find female friends--but I've also seen women get very vicious with other women. I think, though, the older they get, the nicer they get. It is less common to see a woman (or someone fronting as a woman) attacking the appearance of a female celebrity if they self-identify as older. It's often an appearance-based issue with women, or a "She's not all that" kind of complaint working.

I don't think the level of brutality is the same, certainly. "Carping about" someone is very different from confronting them directly and calling them names.

Anyway...i wasn't really looking to open up a new line of inquiry. I was just idly wondering.

With regard to THIS study, though, and speaking of wondering.... I wonder, in addition to the fact that these guys aren't game winners, if--in addition to being game "losers"-- it's a combination of low status (being stupid and unpopular, to be blunt about it) and excessive testosterone, or something, that causes males to behave this way. "I'm a moron and my hormones are acting up!!!!"

I also wonder if fitness/height to weight ratio, "attractiveness," (not impossible to measure, but subjective in some cases), "personality" (another one that is tricky to measure), and "intelligence" might be measured as part and parcel of this inquiry. I mean, low status young men are probably short in all those departments--and they might be internet 'losers' as well.

Surely there must be some game losers who are polite to women. What's the difference between them and the mean ones? That's the next question, I think!!

I think pisspoor socialization enables a lot of internet bullying. You can't do much about your looks, but you can always work on that personality, I say. And there actually is something that fixes 'stupid' -- it's called studying!

The study doesn't have an answer to fix the cyberbullying problem. I think we need to start early. Kids need to be taught at home and in nursery school that poor behavior isn't 'cool'--it's the mark of a misfit and the group shouldn't put up with it.