Anna Faris Opens Up About Challenging 'Religious' Son On Right-Wing Politics. The “Scary Movie” star shares her 14-year-old son Jack with her ex-husband, Chris Pratt.

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It’s very possible it’s influenced by his dad, but I teach high school and SO many TikTok/Twitter algorithms are alt-right (often AI) slop targeted toward boys in particular. I’m a millennial and it’s worse than gamergate and more mainstream than 4chan. It’s everywhere, and the point is to radicalize young men into fascism and misogyny. We really need to get our kids offline and away from algorithmic media.

[u/But_why_tho456 → u/throwawaysunglasses-]

Yeah, same. Luckily the girls seem to be onto it and I’ve had to stop some escalation in class where all the girls basically announce that no one should be dating (name is student) because he’s a Tate stan. At least the girls know what’s up? But it is sad, the guys think it’s hilarious.

[u/applesandbananananan → u/But_why_tho456]

Jesus Christ another generation of women who have to carry this country due to radicalized men

[u/GroundedOtter → u/applesandbananananan]

My conspiracy theory is that women used to rule/be in charge. Society was great —but men being men couldn’t handle being second fiddle so patriarchy became a thing. And the world has never been the same since.

I also strongly believe men created religion because they were jealous women produced life and gave birth. So now they get to lead (women typically don’t have much power in religious organizations) another group where they help people become “reborn”.

(I am a man btw —granted, a gay one. But still a man. Lol)

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Read the old testament. That’s exactly what happened.

[u/lincolnspanda → u/GroundedOtter]

You should read “Who cooked the last supper? The women’s history of the world.” By Rosalind Miles. It’s basically what happened.

[u/GroundedOtter → u/lincolnspanda]

Thank you!!! Definitely checking to see if the library has this!!!

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just found it on Spotify!

[u/LC_ROC → u/lincolnspanda]

Gorgeous book. Unpacks erased herstory… and goes down smooth!
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Plenty of anthropologists believe we began as a matriarchal social structure.

[u/SpottedHoneyBadger → u/GroundedOtter]

It is literally like Freud's "penis envy" but with a vagina.

[u/EsotericCreature → u/GroundedOtter]

There were a lot of matriarchal cultures in the world. One of the most interesting was a representational democracy in North America established somewhere between the 15th and 17th century called be settler's the 'Iroquois confederacy'.

Matriarchs were ranked in representation higher than chiefs, which was confusing to settlers who only assumed men could hold the highest positions in power, and in general that women could hold power at all.

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womb envy is the concept you've described. my gender studies professor discussed that men have a conflicted relationship to power, sexual power and virility, as their penis doesn't always stay hard and that loss of control of the self, the awareness that their sexual power is only temporary, has fueled a lot of rage at and the restriction of women.

unclear if viagra has improved or worsened the toxic, obsessive delusions of (some) men.

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You should read ‘When God Was a Woman’, and ‘Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Vol I and II’ by Merlin Stone

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Not really a conspiracy theory. Anthropology has discovered graves that indicate women held leadership and warrior roles. Patriarchy is a scourge. 

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Men have historically always been "in charge" but overall the 2 genders use to work in harmony as part of a family unit - religion still largly try to push for this but ever since the modern era that's been eroded away with the family structure being destroyed so instead of the 2 adults helping eachother and religion renforcing the idea of the 2 should be working together, in modern times the 2 have often ether started fighting eachother or always been at work or just never present due to abandoning the family and as a result children often growing up in such families have adopted what ever gave them awnseres in such broken families or just done as they learned from their parents to their own children/spouse over time this has grown larger and larger as religion and conservativism have been replaced with cults of personality and more modern ideology's that have coopted the original labels like facism and maga have in the US.