Bateman said the responses that she and other women had received perfectly showed how uncomfortable boys are "when women own their own awesomeness".

"The response to the tweet has been mostly negative," she said. "I think this is because when faced with information that they dislike, people feel the need to lash out.

On Tumblr, 22-year-old student Katie Smith added: "For many men, beauty, coolness, [and] desirability are gifts they alone can bestow upon women. They get baffled, even aggressive when you show you've known you possess those things all along."