I keep seeing posts mentioning this phenomenon more and more often.

For instance:

More and more men are being sucked into parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content, leaving their families to deal with the wreckage

‘Andrew Tate phenomena’ surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

Like, why? Why now? Why even? I really wish I had a time machine where I could go to the future and ask them what the general reasons were for this social development. But I feel like I’m looking for the specific thorn on a cactus that popped my balloon.

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Oh it wasn’t used aptly which pissed me off even more.

    Being called an incel to an awkward teenage boy has an equal but opposite effect to an innocent teenage girl being called a slut.

    I’m advocating neither term should be used to either of them.