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Why do you think a lot of young men are growing up to be so misogynistic today?
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Anonymous 10w

I think it’s because lots of young impressionable men are basically growing up on TikTok from younger and younger ages and there’s so much satire / shitty role models especially for men online that idolize misogyny and other things.

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Anonymous 10w

Variety of things, but #1 and 2 both hit parts. When you’re a preteen on the internet and you’re barraged with random women saying “you suck, I hate you” and random men saying “women suck, you should hate them”, it’s all to easy to get forced into an “us vs them” mentality

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Anonymous 10w

theres a snowball effect causing this and its because of social media. young boys grew up seeing the radical "men aint shit" women and the misogynistic "hate women" men. social media gets more views by pushing these ideas and it conditions these kids to think both of those extremes are the norm. these kids latch onto these beliefs creating more young extremist followers

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

*too

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

This makes sense since algorithms push the same content you interact with and you get caught in an echo chamber. It’s just disheartening that they aren’t being taught enough about respect to reject these ideas when they see them.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

Yeah that makes sense. I just think we should do a better job of education young people on history and teaching them the dangers of making generalizations of entire groups of people.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

Agreed, but that will never be profitable for internet asshats, so it’s an uphill battle

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Plus, TikTok exposes them (wildly disproportionately) to women being their absolute worst (the app seems to signal boost that content on purpose for some reason). So (in addition to bad examples setting low standards for themselves) they’d tend to have a pretty dim and disproportionately negative view of women in general if most of their observations of them have been TikTok influencers

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