I’m going to wholeheartedly disagree with you here. To your point I highly disagree with what you state is the cause of this issue on social media. There’s literally a billion dollar right wing indoctrination campaign targeting boys and men with facist , patriarchal and misogynistic ideology. This entire thread ignores that fact and focuses on a daytime show that almost nobody watches in the first place and is a rare open forum for women to discuss things. That show is in no way anywhere near as hateful or even comparable to what the manosphere pushes.
The Black Lives Matter and me too movements were long overdue and the backlash is very well funded by billionaires. The reason why a lot of people don’t understand why these movements are important is a failure or success of the education system depending on how you look at it. States like California have made ethnic studies curriculum mandatory (critical race theory). understanding the history of colonialists oppression and how it’s shaped societies hierarchy is essential for understanding why it’s bad for everyone and what it means to be “privileged” in a system of oppression.spoiler you’re still oppressed. that’s why right wing states have worked so hard to make sure this isn’t taught. It’s much better for the system of oppression to convince them they are the real victims in all of this so they will continue to enforce the very system that is oppressing them by oppressing those that they are being told are below them for the system. Rape and racism is an entitlement of this system of oppression. Patriarchy isn’t being dismantled it’s being restored and backed by endless money and power.
I don’t disagree that the absurdly well funded and targeted indoctrination campaign is the reason for right wing success. But I think even without that influence you’d still get a generation of “apolitical” or left-skeptic men. That was always going to be the result of any attack against the patriarchy. The inability of progressives to predict that and keep them from going farther right was a massive blunder.
Edit: This is why progressive campaigns à la Mamdani or Bernie have been incredibly popular. Inclusive policies couched alongside clear economic benefits have always been the way to capture universal support. The neo-lib Democratic establishment thought they could have their cake and eat it too by cutting out the troublesome economic half.
I’m going to wholeheartedly disagree with you here. To your point I highly disagree with what you state is the cause of this issue on social media. There’s literally a billion dollar right wing indoctrination campaign targeting boys and men with facist , patriarchal and misogynistic ideology. This entire thread ignores that fact and focuses on a daytime show that almost nobody watches in the first place and is a rare open forum for women to discuss things. That show is in no way anywhere near as hateful or even comparable to what the manosphere pushes.
The Black Lives Matter and me too movements were long overdue and the backlash is very well funded by billionaires. The reason why a lot of people don’t understand why these movements are important is a failure or success of the education system depending on how you look at it. States like California have made ethnic studies curriculum mandatory (critical race theory). understanding the history of colonialists oppression and how it’s shaped societies hierarchy is essential for understanding why it’s bad for everyone and what it means to be “privileged” in a system of oppression.spoiler you’re still oppressed. that’s why right wing states have worked so hard to make sure this isn’t taught. It’s much better for the system of oppression to convince them they are the real victims in all of this so they will continue to enforce the very system that is oppressing them by oppressing those that they are being told are below them for the system. Rape and racism is an entitlement of this system of oppression. Patriarchy isn’t being dismantled it’s being restored and backed by endless money and power.
I don’t disagree that the absurdly well funded and targeted indoctrination campaign is the reason for right wing success. But I think even without that influence you’d still get a generation of “apolitical” or left-skeptic men. That was always going to be the result of any attack against the patriarchy. The inability of progressives to predict that and keep them from going farther right was a massive blunder.
Edit: This is why progressive campaigns à la Mamdani or Bernie have been incredibly popular. Inclusive policies couched alongside clear economic benefits have always been the way to capture universal support. The neo-lib Democratic establishment thought they could have their cake and eat it too by cutting out the troublesome economic half.