Anyone who has played videogames online for any period of time knows that a large portion of gamers are confident assholes online; and will be very abusive to other players when given the opportunity. Race, religion, sexual orientation, biological sex, socio-economic status and (just about) anything that will differentiate someone will be used to harass that person when given the opportunity. Some of this is from people who actually hold these views feeling open to express them, but most of it is just people who enjoy being trolls trying to ruin someone else's day in any way they can.
As for the girl who got asked her bra size ... I have noticed that certain disorders are highly prevalent in avid gamers and there are a lot of gamers who are very sociall awkward and completely misread other people. It isn't quite the same thing, I've known engineers who have unintentionally (repeatedly) sexually harassed female co-workers because they didn't understand that their advances were being rejected; or they were not able to understand how their actions were impacting the women. The following article describes a situation which was (somewhat) famous and illustrates this problem:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18916-bat-fellatio-causes-a-scandal-in-academia.html
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