He said he thinks many men are "constantly surprised" that women receive so much strange and unwanted interaction online – "from the subtly sexual, to the creepy, to the sometimes outright abusive and criminal".

"There's been a long ongoing conversation on the web about how we treat each other, how we treat people who are different than us, and how we treat women in particular on social media," he told BuzzFeed News.

"There's this instinct to say as a man that if you don't personally see it, it can't really be happening – or 'I don't behave that way, so it's not really a problem.'"