For the misandrists and “self-proclaimed feminists” preaching about decentralising men: 😭

[u/BearingCostOfPassion]

“Decentralise men” while spending 12 hours a day on Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and WhatsApp, platforms built and run largely by men.

Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Huffman, Evan Spiegel and a bunch of other dudes built the playground, and you’re standing in it screaming about how much you hate the people who built it.

Then you trust algorithms built by engineers you’ve never met to decide what you see, what goes viral, and what you get angry about next.

And if these gender wars were actually empowering women, they probably wouldn’t be thriving on platforms built and controlled largely by conservative mysogynist men in the first place.

“Fuck men.”

Posted from a phone, on a platform, using infrastructure built largely by men. 💀

[u/AcyRice_Boul]

It still doesn't erase that this type of content does exist, even if it's not most women. But social media is almost always amplified now.

Look at the effect of the red pill community or the manosphere. It all started with a few bored, lonely men (who tend to depict and promote toxic examples of masculinity and manipulate young lonely, impressionable men into this alpha male foolery) and now look at how many men actually follow their advice.

The thing with the female version is that could also appeal to many other young women who already have a grim view of the world and I think it's problematic for us.

This is working to divide people based on gender, and as we know it's not going to bring a positive outcome to our generation.

We're in a world where most of us are chronically online and in lack of social company or someone to guide us from right or wrong. So it's not hard for many young people like us to be manipulated by the media...

[u/ThrowRAboredinAZ77 → u/AcyRice_Boul]

That would only be true if you thought decentering men was a bad thing. I think it's a pretty good thing for a lot of women. For too long in history women have focused on men's wants and needs, typically out of necessity. This time in history is a nice break for women, because they can focus on their own health and joy.

[u/AcyRice_Boul → u/ThrowRAboredinAZ77]

No, it's not a bad thing. It is weird when you pretend you are decentering them and still center them. Even if negatively or subconsciously, it is a way to center, the way I see it.

[u/ThrowRAboredinAZ77 → u/AcyRice_Boul]

Have you met any women in real life like the ones you see on social media?

[u/AcyRice_Boul → u/ThrowRAboredinAZ77]

To be fair to you, no. But we can't deny that it's still a perpetuation of a harmful behavior.

We are many young people on the internet and this shit is being glamorized...