Reply #11: Bringing up another aspect

[supernova]

There was a thread a couple of days ago about an article claiming that most online users in the US now are women. From this I wonder of some of this cyberbullying isn't infact being done to women by other other women? It's the cyberspace version of "Mean Girls."

edit: True story. My ex and I were living in MD in the late 80s. He's working a temp job in a law office. One day he comes home with a diskette. "What's that?" I say. "Oh, some new kind of online community that my boss got a sample disk for. It's called AOL." We uploaded it to our new 286(!), dialed in and signed on. I remember picking out a "girlie" screen name. There were maybe 30 people on AOL at that time, all in the DC area. Still, I got so flooded with IMs that I could'n't respond to anything in the main chat room. I learned my lesson early. It's also the reason I usually choose sex-neutral screen names. That way, if there's someone I do like I have the option of telling them I'm a girl. The resont don't need to know.