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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

Why do you think romance books are SO HOT right now? because they are pure fantasy and lots of ladies want nothing but a fantasy romance and they are addicted to daydreaming, and they compare the real world romance to and it and angry it doesn’t ‘live up’ to the storybooks they read.

The irony is that a bunch of boys got into incel culture because a lot of the media they consumed had women as a prize or "side effect" of being the hero or a "good guy", but got blindsided by real life not giving them any.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think that's ironic, it just happens to ~~both~~ all genders because it's a "people" thing, not a gender thing.

People will say "men do this" or "women do this" depending on context, but really a lot of that could go either way.

It's seen as misogynistic when people talk about women doing it, but when they talk about men doing that just seems all very well.

Why can't we just say humans are flawed beings and leave it at that? There's a lot of ways the media influences our perceptions, and not all of them good. Especially when it comes to gender dynamics.

I mean, just watch any rom-com from before 2010. Half of the stuff you see in them would be a Title IX violation on any college campus these days.

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