Many say their condition has made them the target for abuse.
One suggestion for this is that the smaller number of women at this level make them a target for abuse.
The press increasingly becomes a character in the election, particularly as a target for abuse by Trump.
Meanwhile, an emotionally charged gallery heckled the Europeans throughout the final day; Colin Montgomerie was the preferred target for abuse.
Unofficially, he said, he will function as a sounding board and perhaps now and then as a target for abuse.
But they also learnt that to be disabled does not make you less than human, or an acceptable target for abuse.
Once again, Jeremy Corbyn has found himself a target for abuse for arguing, simply and honestly, that we should not hastily commit ourselves to ending more lives.
But it is hard to ignore the play's strong feminist resonances in a culture where it is blindingly obvious that any woman who puts herself in the public eye will become a target for abuse.
Piers Morgan is a convenient target for abuse but when he tweeted "Bresnan????? Cook's lost the plot here", he was far from the only England supporter who wondered about the decision.
Since Morsi's fall there has been a rise in nationalist and xenophobic discourse, and Syrian refugees who fled civil war at home are now seen as a legitimate target for abuse.
