I've written this carefully as I don't want it to be interpreted in the wrong way. Also ended up being a lot longer than intended.
There is absolutely no doubt that the growing number of right-wing views amongst young men is heavily attributed to the likes of Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson. The market has been created and it's just a money train now. It's easy enough to get on board if you say the right things. They've tapped in to the idea that young men (rightly or wrongly), feel they have been forgotten about in society. These grifters have taken full advantage and weaponised it for their personal gain.
I used to follow a guy on Instagram called Joey Swole. Initially, he was calling out women who'd posted videos of men 'staring' at them whilst in the gym. After a few weeks I started to notice a pattern where he'd thrash the woman for posting the video but would gloss over the fact that the man was indeed being overbearing and/or in the women's personal space without good reason. It became clear he was in it for the grift, and it started off a narrative of "girls wear nothing in the gym to make gym creep videos for Tik Tok videos".
I think social media has made a lot of men resent women and the attention they get. They often peddle the idea that (particularly attractive) women have it easy in life. The #MeToo movement where it turned out women didn't like their arses being randomly smacked (not to trivialise the matter) really upset people. Intimidation was a tactic used by so many men for so long and they don't know any other way.
This is just an observation and not an opinion of mine, but I have noticed a growing trend in that more and more young men aren't even attempting to date, and it's one of many factors of a declining birth rate. Many feel that dating apps have elevated women's 'worth', and men feel like they have to put in a disproportional amount of effort only to be ignored. Women now 'expect too much', and a lot of men feel like marriage and children is a huge risk which could ruin them if it fails. Rightly or wrongly, women are generally treated more favourably by courts if in the case of a divorce.
We've all been rejected by women (or men), but until relatively recently we didn't have worldwide chat rooms and forums to discuss it all. These, unfortunately, are the places where echo chambers form. People try to outdo each other with shock value and to compete for the same bit of air. People can only consume so much content, so it's a constant fight.
I hope this came across the way I intended. It's an absolute mess. I can only see society getting worse before it gets better.
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