...but the article said it for me. I was also glad to see that the Sanders supporters doing this is tiny. Good article - worth reading the whole thing.
And though any and all instances of sexist slurs deserve condemnation, Sanders’ keyboard warriors accounted for just 89 such tweets during the New Hampshire primary. That is a mere 0.17 percent of all the tweets mentioning @HillaryClinton that we examined.
That analysis doesn’t mean Sanders supporters are free of misogyny or sexism. We have not captured all forms of online sexism, only some of the most egregious and overt. And we do not examine abuse of female Clinton supporters, just of Clinton herself.
However, our analysis does provide a better understanding of the extent and character of the attacks lodged against Hillary Clinton online. And it seems relatively little abuse originates from the left. The fact that Sanders, also roundly denounced by the right, receives so little negative attention on Twitter fits with a gendered dynamic. Research shows us that all women —not just politicians, not just Clinton — are much more likely to face harassment and abuse online than are men.
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