The Manosphere Isn't The Problem

From GenX Anecdotes: The Manosphere isn't the Problem, Feminism is.  I did wonder what would happen to a man who wrote this, but then I figured I knew the answer.  In most circles, that man would be hated and off-limits forever.  But these days, there are corners of the internet where he could get together with other guys and exchange stories in gleeful anger. He would incredibly reduce the number of places he could safely hold a job or go to school, but he could have a social consolation prize anyway.  What happens to a woman who writes this I don't know. Most would be pseudonymous for self-protective social reasons. Their comments sections might include a lot of other women agreeing with them and men thanking them, but I'm sure they would attract a lot of hate as well. There will be people who want the world to know that this woman is 100% wrong and dangerous, no quarter given*. 

In the video, the three women discuss the findings of a poll they carried out on Gen Z and their attitudes towards the opposite sex. The results of the poll certainly aren’t a surprise to me and won’t be to anyone who has been actually paying attention. But the women seem to be taken aback and surprised by the findings.

It turns out, drum roll…… young men don’t hate young women anywhere near as much as young women hate men. What a shock!

For me, the results are depressingly predictable. What was fascinating to me was listening to their response to it. Lot’s of “what could be going on here?” and “I don’t really understand why”…..

Well she's not wrong, though she may oversell it.  Schools have tended this way for a long time and it may be worse now.  When I go to vote at the highschool the signs and posters are like this, but much milder. There is also the usual "Our school is great!" and helpful nagging not to do certain things like take drugs or be a bully.  But for those messages which are gendered they are definitely all in one direction. The is also the subtler messaging of "Our school teaches kids to have particular virtues, especially ones preferred by women."  This woman has a daughter, BTW.

 

She tells me what’s going on in her lessons and I see her homework assignments.

English? Let’s focus on women and women’s struggles and how bad it is for women and write an essay about it. History? Women. Art? Women. Science? Women. Even in maths I went to an open evening and her female maths teacher kept going on about the fact that my daughter is a “girl” and that it’s great that she’s good at maths, because we MUST encourage more girls in maths. Do we? Why?

There are posters in the school corridors celebrating female writers, scientists, artists. School assemblies? Let’s talk about women.

Women Women Women…. It’s everywhere.

If they do talk about boys and men, it’s to treat them like broken, dysfunctional girls, bombard them with “education” about “toxic masculinity”, “the patriarchy” and give them the impression that the only way they can be “good boys” is to act like “girls”. 

*Technically, no quarter asked either.  Online, such things are demanded, not requested. See also billionaires, Gaza, 62 million visits, and Epstein files.