Inspired by similar methods shown to be effective in reducing online racist harassment, we designed two tweets aimed at reducing online gender harassment. Our interventions were based on the principles of social re-norming and appealing to harassers’ empathy. In a sample of 666 Twitter users engaging in sexist or misogynist tweeting, we found that our intervention tweets did not reduce the number of sexist slurs or sexist users, either 7 days or 31 days after being sent. Our attempts also affected neither the valence nor the arousal of subsequent tweets posted by our sample of Twitter users. We discuss the conceptual, methodological, and ethical challenges associated with activist research aimed at reducing online gender harassment and discuss some of the implications of our attempts to do so.

受类似方法被证明可有效减少在线种族主义骚扰的启发，我们设计了两条旨在减少在线性别骚扰的推文。我们的干预是基于社会重新规范和吸引骚扰者同情的原则。在 666 位参与性别歧视或厌恶女性推文的 Twitter 用户样本中，我们发现我们的干预推文在发送 7 天或 31 天后并未减少性别歧视或性别歧视用户的数量。我们的尝试也没有影响我们的 Twitter 用户样本发布的后续推文的效价和唤醒度。我们讨论了与旨在减少在线性别骚扰的激进研究相关的概念、方法和伦理挑战，并讨论了我们尝试这样做的一些影响。