[Thread] 1/ Thought it would be useful to examine e-bile/digital misogyny on Twitter, so I looked at how many people had called Congresswoman @IlhanMN four common gendered pejoratives "sl*t, b*tch, c*nt, and wh*re" between now and November 2018. The results are shocking.
2/ The scraping of tweets resulted in around 3,089 individual tweets containing insults. Bitch was the most common slur, representing around 82% of the tweets, followed by wh*re (7%), c*nt (6%) and sl*t (4%). 
3/ the time series graph below shows that every month there is a variation in the amount of abuse. Presumably this volatility reflects certain political events. It is interesting to note that the distribution of insults changes temporarily in August, Sept and October 2019..
4/ It was in August 2019 that Ilhan was reported to be having an affair with political consultant Tim Mynett. While b*itch is still the most common slur, the explicit terms implying Omar's promiscuity "sl*t" and "wh*re" increased significant as a percentage of insults
5/ So in case you think Twitter didn't have a digital misogyny problem, here is a good example of it. Note: this data does not include the *presumably* many accounts that have been deleted or suspended for abuse.
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