Gender-based technology-facilitated violence and abuse (GBTFVA) is a common experience for those engaging with digital technologies in their everyday lives. To better understand why GBTFVA persists, it is necessary to understand the false beliefs and cultural narratives that enable and sustain them. Drawing on the literature on rape myths, this paper explores the prevalence of seven gender-based online violence myths among Canadian men. To achieve this, we adapted the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance (IRMA) (Payne et al., in J Research in Personality 33:27–68, 1999) to assess GBTFVA, and surveyed 1,297 Canadian men between 18 and 30 years old on their GBTFVA beliefs. Our results show that GBTFVA myths and cultural narratives are prevalent across participants, though endorsement levels vary. Four myths were more strongly endorsed: It Wasn’t Really Gender-Based Online Abuse, He Didn’t Mean To, Gender-Based Online Abuse Is a Deviant Event, and She Lied. Overall, these findings help to name and thus begin to address the narratives that sustain and perpetuate gender-based online violence.

对于那些在日常生活中接触数字技术的人来说，基于性别的技术促成的暴力和虐待（GBTFVA）是一种常见的经历。为了更好地理解 GBTFVA 为何持续存在，有必要了解促成和维持它们的错误信念和文化叙事。本文借鉴有关强奸神话的文献，探讨了加拿大男性中七种基于性别的网络暴力神话的普遍程度。为了实现这一目标，我们采用了伊利诺伊州强奸神话接受度 (IRMA)（Payne 等人，发表于 J Research in Personality 33:27–68, 1999）来评估 GBTFVA，并对 1,297 名 18 至 30 岁的加拿大男性进行了调查GBTFVA 信念。我们的结果表明，尽管认可程度各不相同，但 GBTFVA 神话和文化叙事在参与者中普遍存在。四个神话得到了更强烈的认可：这并不是真正的基于性别的在线虐待、他不是故意的、基于性别的在线虐待是一种异常事件和她撒了谎。总体而言，这些发现有助于命名并开始解决维持和延续基于性别的网络暴力的叙述。