Men need to stop consuming anti-women media, they are shooting themselves in the foot.

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Men need to stop consuming anti-women media, they are shooting themselves in the foot.

1. The golddigger argument.

Right now there is this ridiculous trend going around about 'high value' men and 'alpha' males. I see many men commenting that you will not have a chance with a woman unless you are either of the two, and earn a lot of money.

Sure there may be statistics HOWEVER do you actually hold the education to understand, evaluate and apply these statistics, or do you just grab the number and shove it into an argument?

Most statistics although interesting, are not deemed fully valid, even when done by harvard researchers, this is because 600 participants, from the same state, of the same sex and ethnicity, is not enough to generalise the whole population, it is considered invalid in terms of actual research standards that can be used and an inadequate sample size. I know this as I studied psychology and we constantly had it drilled into us that such a specific sample size, and small one, will not be valid.

I also cannot generalise from my own experience, otherwise I would be contradicting myself however I will get in in here, that I started dating my partner before he had a job, and no he does not come from a rich family, nor is he some 'chad' as you like to say. My mother has a long term friend who is interested in her, he's a veteran, nothing wrong with his looks and absolutely minted (English slang for lots of money.), however she doesn't feel a connection so does not pursue anything with him, I can say the same for at least 3 other female friends I have.

If you get too lost in statistics, then you will of course fall into this doomer mindset that it is impossible to get a woman without being rich, or extremely handsome. Whats even worse than misreading statistics and using them, is when you do not even bother with statistics and use andrew tate as a source of information, the man flaunts his wealth, only cares about his wealth, pimps out his gfs on onlyfans, runs a pyramid scheme, and only dates instagram models that never want to work and only want money from men.

How can you sit there and think the women he gets represents all women, when those are the type of women he wants to attract, they are a completely different personality type with different aspirations, and NOT portrayal of women as a whole, only of IG models.

It makes me think people lack basic critical thinking skills.

2. It is only harming you, and young boys.

If you absorb this media so frequently, without understanding how to evaluate it, or take it with a grain of salt, of course you start hating women, you are biased to this media and do not let any other information in except what the 'chad' podcast loser says, this isn't empowering media, and infact just insults you and says unless you meet xyz you will not find a girlfriend, this media is stemming so far that young boys from the age of 5 are referencing it and hating women before they have even had a chance to talk to one, or kiss one or have a crush, regardless of your views, is this really what you want? If thats so, you're sabotaging your own sex and in denial about the harm it is causing.

3. It is creating a huge sex divide.

I genuinely think we are experience one of the biggest sex divides we have seen in years. Men are not only harming themselves, with suicide rates climbing, and inceldom becoming more and more common, but they are also pushing women away by doing this. If you look at the bigger picture, this is not healthy for either of us. Inceldom especially is a topic I could write a million essays of, incels do not care to comfort eachother, I have been on the forums, they are there to continue brainwashing eachother into hopelessness, that they will never feel the love of a woman, which becomes such a viscious and lonely cycle, as incels teach not just to hate women, but to also hate 'chads' etc, which is causing a lot of suicides and in some cases incels are hurting innocent people. These are sad cases, of men being isolated, manipulated, told they're worthless and then harming themselves or others.

4. The feminism argument.

As a traditional feminist, I can agree some extreme feminism is going too far, however this is not the majority, and we cannot generalise from tiktok. As a feminist I just want equality, I want the gap in stem to be recognised, the workplace issues, the higher SA statistics etc, I do not hate men, and never will, despite a lot of men recently becoming bad people, I'll never generalise, I am not a child and old enough to know not all men are like what I have mentioned above, I am also an advocate for men reversing the 'just be a man' mentality, where they keep in their emotions and feel weak to talk about their feelings, leading to men having the highest suicide rate in all countries. I genuinely believe, addressing this more, would lower a lot of male dominated crime rates.

Most feminists just want some equality issues addressed, sure there is extremism on tiktok or youtube or whatever, but to take this and generalise a whole movement that has been going from the 1900's, shows to me you lack critical thinking skills.

5. 'Traditional women'

Traditional women still exist, I know for one my mum is one, she is a feminist herself, but she is also a traditional women, before my dad passed, he was the breadwinner, whilst she raised us when he was at work, and made the meals and it was a very happy time for them, however my dad did not disrespect my mum and enforce 'traditional' values, she was still allowed to voice her opinion, have a say in the family etc.

There will never be a 'doomsday' like you're talking about where traditional women cease to exist. There is so much religious women, and women who want to be provided for and settle with children.

Also remember, in this economic state, it's a lot harder for men to actually be the sole breadwinner, Personally I am at university studying cyber security, I still want a family and a mortgage, but in this economic state it would be impossible, even on my type of degree, to earn enough alone, I'd also personally get quite bored, I think it's great that when I do have children, they will have both a hardworking mother and father to look up to. Before I hear the 'no time with your kids argument' this is a myth, children are at school for the same time work hours are, not only that I purposely chose a computing degree so I can have flexible working and do not need as much time in the office.

I personally think women are adapting to the current climate, and most men (not all) that I speak to nowadays, do not want to be the sole breadwinner, whether its because of stress, and the slight weight off their shoulders knowing there is dual income, or simply them recognising times changing and needing more to unfortunately live.

6. What do you think this hatred will achieve?

Can you tell me what sitting on forums, reading out of context incel statistics with poor sample sizes benefit you? Have they changed the dating game for you? made you a millionaire, or what?

Or have you just gained a more dim outlook on life, and women.

At the end of the day, We should not hate eachother or drag people down. As long as people do not harm others, let them be, if a womans a feminist and you dislike that, thats completely okay, but you can just let them live and move on, you'll never have to interact with them again or see them again, so why let things you dont like sit in your mind? Why not instead pursue your ideals and the type of woman you want.

This will never happen, but traditional feminists recognise a lot of mens struggles, and if we worked together, it would help a better society. Of course, this will never happen, we are humans, we love to hate, lust, and more, but if you're reading this and relate to some of the things I've said,

Why not drop the pitchfork, you do not have to adopt my views, thats the great thing about free will, but you can live without this hatred and misrepresentation, spend your life for you, It is genuinely too short, not reading daming articles that cause a feeling of hopelessness and hatred towards the opposite sex.

It's like people who constantly watch the news, and consume such negative media, it will give you such a negative outlook on life.

Men need to stop consuming anti-women media, they are shooting themselves in the foot.
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