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# Women Online?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/women-online/
- Published: 2007-10-08T14:10:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-17T10:23:56.000Z
- Author: Felix Cohen
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31, #ImagesUploaded

It's a common internet [adage](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=there+are+no+women+on+the+internet&ref=opendemocracy.net) that there are no women online; clearly untrue, massively misogynistic, yet still trolled out in discussion forums everywhere. XKCD provides this brilliant counterpoint:

![XKCD Cartoon](https://www.opendemocracy.net/content/files/2026/04/pix_plz_DGfJiCi-1776421368952.png)

XKCD Cartoon

(linked under Creative Commons from the truly suberb [XKCD](http://www.xkcd.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net) web comic, by Randall Munroe)