@megamandaplays @casemanxp ok using twitlonger because it makes this a hell of a lot easier. So outside of some attacks by people who tried to demean me and my opinion because I'm a man (and I don't count any of this conversation, I'm talking about people who were nothing but insults and accusations 100% of the time), the harassment I've received has not focused on my gender and I believe the reason is that my identity as a man has little to do with my day to day life or my personality, beliefs and feelings. It's not something I even think about a lot of the time. Attacks are usually focused on my family, my work, recently my cancer or in some cases attempts to claim that I'm not a heterosexual man (faggot etc). Being a man is not an attack vector, indeed in some cases trying to deny that I am the man that I am is the attack vector. Trolls intend to inflict maximum damage and the vast majority do not view attacking the fact that I am a man as an effective strategy to do so.

From what I've seen in cases of legitimate harassment against females, the identity is much more important as an attack vector. Rape threats are a prime example. Since there is little more terrifying for most women, this is used by those looking to inflict maximum damage. Rape is an issue for men as well but it is not something that I as a man think about all that often (except in the case of prison rape, which is a huge issue). Now is this because being a woman is a more important part of a womans identity than being a man is to a man? I don't know, that seems like massive generalisation on my part but it seems like there is some truth to the idea that for women it is a more effective attack vector because (and I'm making a huge presumption here), the gender component of the womans identity is more important to a woman than the gender component of a mans identity is to a man, ergo attacking it is more damaging.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of this. I'm specifically trying to talk about the reasons why harassment is tailored in such a way and why its payloads are different depending on the gender of the target.