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Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist?
(www.theatlantic.com)
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I could only get through the first third. But the researcher was reporting that young men in culturally liberal and developed nations are more sexist than women their age, while older generations everywhere are not.
She speculates this is because the young men haven’t gained the status indicators of financial stability, housing, and an attractive wife (sic) that they see the older men had gained back when houses were plenty and women were forced to be with men for financial and cultural reasons. So the perceived reduced status, financial strain of modern times, and women’s rejections generates resentment and drives them online (where only the more extreme voices are generating content) and reinforces that resentment.
I think the women have valid complaints, plus there’s just the general difficulty of finding a good partner. But both of those together mean a greater rate of rejection (about one third of young men are unpartnered) than the men see compared to the older generation.
The sense I got was that it’s about perception, not necessarily absolute figures. And I’m sure the sting just compounds with everything else they’re struggling with.
You know, how do I equate this eloquently… it makes it real fucking difficult to read this, and hear how men are struggling to find a partner nowadays and hear how women don’t want to put up with men’s bullshit, and I get it, I really do, there’s a lot of men out there that can be downright dangerous to women or even society…but I read this and then I think about all the women on the Internet swooning over a good looking verifiable murderer and I sit here and think, what the fucking fuck!? Where is the disconnect? Why are the Ted Bundy’s of the world getting laid while the modest Ted Hyundai’s of the world getting Joe Roganed?
The article doesn't provide hard numbers to nail down on a wall and quote. However, I'll do my best to summarize and interpret.
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My interpretation:
Typically, those processes have different outputs:
To have the output of B enter the political realm, one needs a politician to translate bitterness into reactionary politics that aims to harm women's rights. To bring a boring example: an ultra-conservative opposed to the right of aborting a pregnancy.
Once the translation has been provided, the next question comes: are young men easier to co-opt into radical political movements? And the answer is undeniably "yes". Men are considerably less inhibited by risk, for reasons that are probably both social (how one is raised) and biological.
If a radical movement presents the perspective of considerable risk, but considerable gain, you'll typically find young men involved. So, some political offshoots of a situation where the state of affairs makes people discontent - both offshoots in revolutionary and reactionary directions (think of anarchists and neofascists) - you'll find young men heavily involved there (and often quite willing to beat the heck out of each other).