Shane Hegarty writing about blogging and nastyness and commenters in particular wonders about heterosexual male privilege. In particular he wonders if women bloggers

do attract particular nastiness;

and with reference to the practice of commenting generally

how much the anonymity allowed by comments threads gives people licence to be homophobic, racist or sexist; and whether it’s rare – or depressingly common.

While I think about my reply why don’t you go over and comment yourself. (Nicely of course!)