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    Twitter Users Complain That Women Just Want Attention

    "Female Attention Seeking Status Updates" is trending on Twitter this morning. So, what online behaviors exhibited by chicks are deemed "attention-seeking"? The results are sometimes depressing.

    The offending status updates fall into a few categories. There are those about appearance:

    Twitter: @SaishGall

    Twitter: @ThickKushClouds

    Twitter: @hyp_notizing

    Twitter: @Samgraver

    Twitter: @Nusaa09

    About relationships:

    Twitter: @RFifton

    Twitter: @moethehoe

    Twitter: @RichieeYola

    Twitter: @ThePrincessHM

    Twitter: @GG_Tlhomelang

    Twitter: @oray_cole

    Twitter: @Tweet_this_meat

    Twitter: @ProvostF

    About feelings:

    Twitter: @GHMIDWINTER

    Twitter: @GHMIDWINTER

    Twitter: @DufusSmiley

    Twitter: @chellyanyweh

    Twitter: @alexsark_

    About women's health:

    Twitter: @Laurennn_C

    Twitter: @Sar0ny

    Twitter: @Foadiee

    About feminism:

    Twitter: @ZaidZaidane

    Twitter: @JackWeegram

    This one is just meta:

    Twitter: @santaevita

    Some of the above updates are legitimately annoying, but others are just sad. People posting about how they want to die probably do deserve some attention, of the psychiatric variety (especially because that kind of update can be an early sign of depression). Many supposed "attention-seeking" updates appear to inspire outsized resentment. One user identifies the problem:

    Twitter: @neonkittenn

    Maybe Facebook has made everybody tired of others' emotions — but it's women's feelings that, at least in this hashtag, seem to incite special ridicule. Some clues as to why:

    Twitter: @mohit_ak

    Twitter: @saili_black

    Some people seem to feel that women — and especially pretty women — get more attention on Facebook than men, and maybe more attention than they deserve. Since men have traditionally dominated most other forms of media, maybe women's success in social networking rankles a bit? It's worth pointing out, though, that a lot of the tweets on the hashtag came from women. As one user pointed out,

    Twitter: @DarrenAsante

    Women have certainly been known to enforce codes of women's behavior, and calling out supposed attention-seekers on Twitter and Facebook appears to be no different. But just because women are doing it doesn't mean it's awesome. In the words of Tamsin B-G:

    Twitter: @Tansy91