Threatening messages aimed to prevent digital piracy have the opposite effect if you're a man, a new study from the University of Portsmouth has found. According to the research, women tend to respond positively to this kind of messaging, but men typically increase their piracy behaviors by 18%.
I am a woman, and therefore speak with authority for All Womankind (jk). In reality, I have no studies but some thoughts pulled together from gender differences and potential differences in experiences.
Tech stuff is often male dominated, dig into less mainstream stuff on forums with patchwork moderation and some pockets get really unfriendly to women really quickly. Lemmy is about as deep as I go while still openly saying I’m a woman. Even here, I have Lemmy alts from which I don’t mention my gender so I can ask questions as an “assumed male by default” user.
I think one could also frame it in terms of risk tolerance. Testosterone levels affect men’s emotions and ability to think logically (there are plenty of studies on this). For example, they aren’t worse drivers than women but take bigger risks that put them in more dangerous situations with more damaging outcomes because high testosterone can literally make them impulsive and illogical. Any time I see a gender disparity in crime in particular, I wonder about correlation to testosterone levels.
I don’t know where that hatred comes from, but I can only assume it’s because those guys couldn’t find good ladies to be with. They probably got rejected a lot and now they don’t like wimen at all. But I don’t know for sure.
I’m not sure you responded to the right thread, or you’re just referring to the depths of the Internet being misogynistic? Whatever, i’ll roll with it.
“You wouldn’t download a car… unless that stuckup bitch Suzy doesn’t go on a date with me. I don’t like her anyway, I only offered to take her out because I’m such a Nice Guy. I would rather stay home and torrent all episodes of My Little Pony anyways”.
Too much? I think the MLP is too much but I was blanking on any other stereotypical neckbeardy media. And the character definitely did go neckbeardy when it could have just as easily gone Andrew Tate fanboy.
As a man… that sounds about right lol. I was watching a show and then realised if I wanted the later seasons I’d have to subscribe to a different service and I took that personally and got annoyed and now I just pirate stuff. No one tells this manly feller what to do.
I would say risk taking isnt always bad and not always illogical. But yeah, as a man I know what you mean when you talk about testosterone and risk taking.
I imagine it used to have quite a lot of benefits back when we were still sleeping in caves, shure you might die when facing a mammoth, but you could also feed the whole tribe for weeks when you succeed.
It sucks that you have to deal with misogyny on-line like that.