Online abuse is not limited by gender

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'Twitter's public apology to women who have been subjected to online abuse is another significant victory for those campaigning against online misogyny. It follows in the wake of the successful #FBrape campaign that persuaded advertisers to suspend their marketing activities on Facebook until it made a commitment to tackle "gender-based hate".
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Second, there is the issue of how we tackle violence and abuse full stop. Anyone following the debate about gender hate-speech on social media in recent months could be forgiven for thinking that online abuse is always perpetrated by men and suffered by women. And yet a survey by the website Knowthenet in 2011 found that 19-year-old males were most at risk from cyberbullying among teenagers, with 85% saying they had been victims, while figures from the World Health Organisation reveal that men account for 81% of violent deaths globally every year.

In reality, men and women of all backgrounds are vulnerable to online abuse and it can come from the unlikeliest of places. Last week, the men's lifestyle magazine GQ published some of the violent threats tweeted at them by One Direction fans for making singer Harry Styles apparently look like a "man whore" in a recent cover shoot. Much like the offensive tweets directed at feminist campaigners, the online abuse of GQ's staff included death threats and threats of sexual violence, with calls for all the men who work for the magazine to be castrated.'