Who you calling a sl*t, girlfriend?

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Published May 19, 2014

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London - Women are just as likely to be abused online by other females as they are by men and call each other “sluts” and “whores”, research has found.

Analysis of more than six million tweets using the two derogatory references showed men and women were equally likely to use them when making deliberately offensive posts, known as trolling.

Sofia Patel, from the University of Sussex, said: “Women are increasingly more inclined to engage in discourses using the same language that has been, and continues to be, used as derogatory against them.”

The study, published by think-tank Demos, also found a high proportion of “casual” misogyny on the social network was also carried out by women, where they made joking rape references or called friends bad names.

Previous studies have shown women are more likely to be subjected to online abuse and threats than men. - Daily Mail

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