Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny
socsa@piefed.social 21 hours agoThe problem with this is that it cedes all conversations about personal responsibility to the bad actors. I have a very similar story to you in terms of being an ideal candidate for manoshpere recruitment but understanding that it is bullshit. So why didn't we fall into the trap? All these men have the same access to information. Many of them are actually quite privileged as well. What other area of society to we see an adult throwing a childlike tantrum and immediately turn to "well obviously society has failed them." Do we say that about "Karens" making a scene? Do we say that about athletes who get DUIs?
Honestly I don't feel like society has failed me at all. I think that's a very fragile cop out for very fragile assholes. To me it evokes the idea that men should be coddled as society reconciles the consequences of centuries of patriarchal injury.
graff@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
It’s called emotional intelligence. It helps you not fly off the handle when minor bad things happen. Having the same reaction to a franchise movie being bad as someone totalling your car is not good, yet it’s all too common
catty@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
To be fair, ghostbusters 3 was really bad.
Sonor@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Or the new star wars “movies”
graff@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
I like how both of you knew what I was referring to :)