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40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research (theconversation.com)
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Support for violence to resist feminism was highest among adolescent boys (28%), followed closely by adolescent girls (21%).

Perhaps most alarming: roughly 40% of boys aged 13 to 17 agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.

These results raise crucial questions going forward. We don’t yet know how these views have changed over time, whether they are on the rise and what the links are between violent extremism and the negative treatment of women.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's why it's called a "gender war." But if you criticize it in the wrong spaces, you'll have a dozen feminists jumping down your throat about how "there's no gender war! That's just made-up manosphere propaganda!" While they go on making generalizations about men, and if you say that's a generalization they'll go "nOt AlL mEn!!1!" sarcastically as if they're making a point.

But that only applies when you talk about "gender war" in the context of criticizing misandry and generalizations about men. If you bring up "gender war" to criticize misogyny and generalizations about women, in those same spaces, you'll get those same feminists commiserating with you and saying things like "I feel that, sister, men are such evil swine!"

It's pointless, and yes, social media directly contributed to this radicalization, polarization, and normalization of extremism over the past decade or so.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I hold that people are people and sex/gender doesn't matter. So basically everyone hates me. I love it.

Everyone just wants to use their 'victimhood' to be a shithead these days.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, it's "choose a side or else you'll be treated like you're on the other side."

Socially-enforced campism, basically. In my view, extremists on both sides are deplorable. Misandry and misogyny are both wrong, and saying that doesn't make me a hypocrite.

But I'll never win the oppression olympics, so why would I even try to compete?