Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny

• SupaTuba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I did and it seems to have gotten even more off track and deeply into this magical idea that women and other minorities (not sure why they were brought into it) somehow have easier lives?

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for reading it.

    There are two factors here in the US that correlate significantly with a person’s lifetime earnings potential: their zip code of birth and attainment of a college degree. It’s exceedingly significant (in a positive way) that women constitute the majority in college enrollment. I think that’s a good thing, but it also demonstrates inequality.

    I want to see policies here that mirror those in more progressive European countries: Free college, a federally-mandated living wage that adjusts with inflation, and universal health care. I also want to see universities’ federal funding tied to expansion of enrollment rates, as there are many that keep them artificially low and yet still raise tuition rates every year. These benefits should target low-income communities without regard to race or gender.

    In short, I want to see the economic ship lifted for the poor, and that’s how it should be done.

    Most young people, and in particular young men, have three choices when entering adulthood: Work for sub-standard wages and struggle alone and/or live with their parents, join the military, or take on permanent debt on the hope of a college degree and an elevated life.

    Rampant misogyny has spread because people who consider themselves progressive have ignored these economic calamities and right-wingers have, conversely, highlighted those inequalities, created communities for young men, and gotten rich in the process. Currently the functional unemployment rate in the United States is 25%.

    The solution, is creating an economy where prosperity is distributed among a more diverse population of people.

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    • SupaTuba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Correlating education to wealth is fine overall but you are intentionally avoiding more direct metrics of wealth and inequality to make it seem as if this is direct causation for women having some upper hand.

      Women absolutely make less and hold a significantly smaller portion of the overall wealth in this country.

      Women routinely have to leave their careers to manage the home and their family (due to archaic misogynistic gender roles). There is also just straight up bias in management decisions about pay.

      pewresearch.org/…/the-enduring-grip-of-the-gender…

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      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Correlating education to wealth is fine overall but you are intentionally avoiding more direct metrics of wealth and inequality to make it seem as if this is direct causation for women having some upper hand.

        No. I’m illustrating that the machinery of government can and has elevated women and minorities.

        Women absolutely make less and hold a significantly smaller portion of the overall wealth in this country.

        What I’ve suggested above would benefit them as much as men.

        Women routinely have to leave their careers to manage the home and their family (due to archaic misogynistic gender roles). There is also just straight up bias in management decisions about pay.

        Sometimes yes, hence why there needs to be more regulation, as I’ve suggested.

        Your interference that I’m blaming women is projection.

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