2/ A lot of people seem surprised that there is such a large online community where young men who have such a violent hatred towards women meet. They are shocked that these groups advocate rape, violence, and idolize mass murderers.
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3/ A lot of men also dismiss these people as losers that can’t get laid as though if they could just get a girl these sorts of attacks would just go away. But the problem is far deeper than that. These are young men with no self esteem, self worth, and lack positive guidance
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4/ If you really dig into these groups, what you see are men who are struggling to adapt to a new reality. One where women are fiercely strong and independent. Where competition for jobs has effectively doubled with women able to compete across a full spectrum of jobs
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5/ Women dominate graduate school. They forgo families for careers. Yet this is increasingly sold as a terrible thing. Its the reason alt-right groups who want to regress society back to the 1950s have been able to indoctrinate young men who feel lost in this reality
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6/ What they arent being told is that this march towards equality doesnt take away any of their rights. And in fact it affords men even more opportunities then ever. It frees men from needing to work shit jobs just so they can be providers for the family society demands they have
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8/ Here is where its going to get real uncomfortable for a lot of men. The next time an angry young man attacks women because he is guided by violent misogynistic views, its going to be on us. Maybe you didn’t know about incense and MRAs before, but now you do and have no excuses
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10/ What are you going to do if next time, and sadly there will be a next time, it’s your mother, girlfriend, sister, neighbor or some other women in your life? Are you going laugh at the prevalence of these groups? Are you going to think they are harmless losers?
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11/ I’m sure some of the people that do these attacks are mentally ill. But more and more men are being radicalized by misogynistic hate groups and likely to do things they wouldn’t if they hadn’t felt so alone that the only comfort they could get was from predatory ideologies
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Fin/ There is no one better equipped to deal with women’s issues than women. And the rise of misogynist violence against women through rape threats, violence, harassment, and death, is a men’s issue that men need to fight. Seriously. We are fucking better than this. Let’s show it
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