Who are the comments about?

We also categorized comments based on the gender identifiers in the text. The gender identifiers include pronouns (e.g., she, he) and also other ways of referring to people of different genders such as mother and father. We also included unsavory ways of referring to people. If a comment has only identifiers related to one gender, it is categorized as that gender. Comments with both male and female identifiers are categorized as both and comments without any gender identifiers are categorized as none. Comments with female identifiers predominate the foul-language corpus and they appear at about the same rate throughout the month. About 69% of the comments include only female identifiers while about 1% have only male identifiers. About 26% of the comments include both identifiers and the remaining 4% have no gender identifiers. The female representation in the foul-language corpus is substantial, but what if most Reddit comments include female identifiers? Maybe this skewed representation is actually typical. It isn’t. In the reference corpus, only about 8% of the comments have female gender identifiers — significantly less than the 69% that is in the foul-language corpus. The female comments is nearly the smallest in the reference corpus; comments with both identifiers is slightly smaller and totals 7% of the comments. Comments with male identifiers are about 19% of the reference corpus, which is higher than the 1% included in the foul-language corpus. There is gender disparity in the foul-language corpus.