“cut off his dick” – 646 instances
“chopped off his balls” – 102 instances
“chopped off his dick” – 60 instances
“chop off his dick” – 232 instances
“rip his dick off” – 31 instances
“going to kill him” – 374 instances
“I hope he gets raped” – 34 instances
“I want to stab him”- 66 instances
If retweets are taken into consideration, just on these phrases alone which only represent a fraction of the variations out there, the number exceeded well over 4,000 genuinely disturbing comments in just 30 days.
I have no clue how twitter works when it comes to retweets but found this pretty interesting. I asked myself, of course, but what about women, as compared to men. So I used Topsy as well as Google to find some results for phrases that include kill, die and rape. The Results:
Topsy (All Time) Google ---------------------------------------------------------- "I hope he gets raped" 121 385,000 "I hope she gets raped" 56 184,000 Gender Ratio (F:M) 0.46 0.47 "I want to rape him" 241 99,300 "I want to rape her" 62 139,000 Gender Ratio (F:M) 0.25 1.39 "I hope he dies" 1937 1,790,000 "I hope she dies" 1181 603,000 Gender Ratio (F:M) 0.60 0.33 "I want to kill him" 3642 3,360,000 "I want to kill her" 1915 1,420,000 Gender Ratio (F:M) 0.52 0.42 "I hope he gets killed" 54 627,000 "I hope she gets killed" 45 223,000 Gender Ratio (F:M) 0.83 0.35
Pretty interesting results. Especially for the rape items where I did not suspect to be more hateful comments against men, on Twitter. The Google result for "I want to rape him/her" is the only item where the female version got more hits. I played around with "rape her / rape him" which is in favor of the female version, however most of the results listed seem to come from news reports so these findings are not surprising and I was looking for people advocating for violence.
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