A BBC article looks at the disproportionate number of women on a list of most-hated celebrities (and all of the most-loved seem to be men).
It's a British study and they have a particular kind of relationship with their celebrities here. A lot of this has to do with the type, and volume, of tabloid news-magazines they have here. This, of course, suggests that the reason why more of the hated celebrities are women is because of the way they are portrayed in that press.
Okay, so if most of the readers are generally accepted to be women, why do the tabloid editors see it as good business to dish out dirty gossip on so many women, while lavishing praise on men (at least the handsome ones)? The glib answer would be that of course, "Women hate other women and love men."
Another answer, suggested in the article, is that the readers of these tabloids hold women to a higher standard than men. A double-standard?
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