Yeah, same. i'd have gone down the pipeline shouldn't have I watched contra points video on incels

My brother is pretty dumb but very persuasive so he can pass as an "intellectual". His gateway drug to the manosphere was Jordan Peterson.

Yup, or a bit younger. I'm 40, so I was 28 when gamergate kicked off this whole online misogynist grifter ecosystem (which fed into and became a component of what we'd call the alt-right a few years later.)

By that point I'd already had my first few bad breakups and rejections and had grown up, and had made some good platonic friendships with women, so I wasn't vulnerable to it. But if it'd happened when I was like 23 or 24 and I hadn't had those chances to grow and mature yet? It might've been a lot different.

It's much easier to blame bad luck and personal failings on others. Growth and maturity takes work.