Toxic masculinity is a global phenomenon, but nowhere is it more virulent than in this hypermodern, connected society. What can other countries learn from this ‘ground zero’ of misogyny?
Toxic masculinity is a global phenomenon, but nowhere is it more virulent than in this hypermodern, connected society. What can other countries learn from this ‘ground zero’ of misogyny?
To be frank, I don’t like this common neoliberal talking point that’s like “if men lose access to stable jobs, they’re entitled misogynists” this is a sex reductionist take.
Men and women, should both be entitled to good paying jobs. The elites want men and women fighting each other over meagre scraps.
Who said “entitled”? OP was merely observing an outcome.
Swear to fucking god, we can’t say, “A happened, predictably followed by B.”, without someone screaming, “You support B!”
That’s about as helpful as “have you tried not being poor?” and doing the elite’s job of blaming each other.
Yep…
The culture wars and gender wars are intentional distractions. The class war is the one that matters. The billionaires figure they can solve the housing crisis, solve economics, end war, and save the environment by simply making the rest of us extinct. And in the most cruelly utilitarian way possible, there is even some truth to that. They do not value human creativity, human rights, or human life at all. They are extracting every last scrap of value we have, then they will end us. They consider themselves above the rest of humanity, transhumans, superhumans, better than obsolete humans, and they think the world will be an objectively better place with much fewer of us on it. When you start to see everything that’s going on in the world it all starts to make sense when you understand that is actually their goal. Their goal is to not need us any longer, and then to remove us. I am certain it will not be as easy as they think, but expect them to try.
I have thought about this for a while now.
It definitely seems like the whole gender war topic is artificially inflated by social media, which in turn is owned and regulated by billionaires, so i’m inclined to think that yes, the gender wars are a part of a distraction scheme by the rich to keep the people divided, but also i think there maybe is more to it.
Like, i have talked to a lot of people in person, and the common narrative seems to be among a lot of people (maybe a third) that they outright don’t want to have children, never wanted to have any, and simply feel pressured by society to marry and have children at all. In that case, you could look at it like a “liberation movement”. But also, that is only a small part of the population (maybe 1/3). Then you have a lot of people who don’t have an opinion and simply move along with whatever the societal mainstream is (maybe another 60%), and then you have a small amount of anarchists who want to determine their own lifes, and these often do want to have kids. So, a significant part of society (i’d say maybe 60%) is inflluenced by the media, and the media sends two conflicting narratives:
On the one hand, they send the narrative in leftist spaces that “having no children is a good thing and you should all want it. Having children pushes the women into difficult situations since they will end up being the caretaker and such.”
On the other hand, in right-wing circles, especially the white-supremacy movement, they say that having children is good because we need to preserve our white race.
So, if you take these two things together, possibly there’s a push to make right-wing people have more children and left-wing people have less children. But that’s only a guess on my side. I’m still investigating more about this.