Threatening anyone, anywhere isn't okay. Doesn't matter if they're a male, female, or something else nor if it happened on the internet or somewhere else. Threats aren't okay.

I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you didn't actually mean the dark implications of specifying women and the internet exactly.

In the same way 'Black Lives Matter' does not mean 'other lives do not matter', saying 'threatening women is not okay' is not an endorsement of threatening other-gender people, saying that 'threatening people on the internet is not okay' is not an endorsement of threatening people in person.

It just made a quippy snappy echoing pattern "X isn't right anymore, I mean Y isn't right anymore" which is better than a long dull balanced diatribe, easier to write on a smartphone, and doesn't outright insult them for the lame "tough guy on the internet" stuff.

I was specifically reminded of Kathy Sierra who used to run the Creating Passionate Users blog and the way she was threatened and harassed off the internet. I deleted the first 'anymore' to avoid saying that threatening women used to be okay, which it never was - but I am trying to reference that the internet has historically been a more 'men-abusing-women' space than any other combination and that is changing with things like the #MeToo movement. e.g. [1] women get worse kinds of harassment online, and report being more upset by it, than men.

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/women-internet-harassment

Of course, saying "White Lives Matter" or "All Lives Matter" will get you labeled a racist and a nazi, among other things. Double standards are glorious, aye?

All men are born equal, so we really don't and shouldn't have to specify identifiers. Specifying identifiers means there are implicit differences and thus discrimination or special treatment, which both of which are both unwarranted and not okay.

I know for a fact now that you do not mean any dark implications, of course. So this is all in general terms.