• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    keep seeing this content that’s “men are so stupid and inferior and awful” and it’s grating on me.

    Because there are groups specifically circulating ragebait to radicalize young and impressionable men into right winged radicalism. People see this all over the internet, but what do you see in real life? In my experience I have seen plenty of examples of casual misogyny in real life, I’ve never really seen any form of “misandry” in person.

    • Auth@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I see a lot more Misandry in real life than say 15 years ago. A lot of it is very straight up and said as if there is nothing wrong with what they’re saying and its just a fact. Some examples off the top of my head are “short men are disgusting” “men are ruining the world” “we should just kill all men” “I hate that im attracted to men” and then plenty of things that are just attacking innocent things men do like their hobbies

      • AskewLord@piefed.social
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        4 months ago

        yes.

        all you have to do is flip the genders, and it’s hate speech. imagine guys going on about how short women are disgusting and unworthy of them… they would be considered horrible people.

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          4 months ago

          If all you do is flip the genders then you’re ignoring the context - power and history.

          There’s a difference between punching up and punching down.

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            4 months ago

            No. Power and history don’t matter in personal relationships. We are only responsible for ourselves as individuals.

            Power and history only matter at the institutional level. Stop mistaking institutional issues, for individual’s behaviors. They are not at all linked.