Not sure where best to post this - both horrifying and depressing, and as the article says, somehow not shocking.
For years, the founder of the Everyday Sexism project has had vile abuse heaped upon her. But that still didn’t prepare her for what she found in the toxic world of online misogyny
www.theguardian.com
Also I am 'watching' this thread, but annoyingly, updates never appear on my front page. Is this a problem for anyone else?
I dip into the MGTOW stuff on Reddit and a lot it of is general bitching at women, but frankly, the posts on TwoXChromosomes are just as insane if not worse. I don't believe that all men think like that, and I sure don't think the folks on TwoXChromosomes are representative of all women.
There's a men's right movement that gets lumped in with MGTOW in the attempt to marginalise it, and I have sympathy for. Didn't really hit me until one time they pointed out a national ad run in the press, saying 1 in 4 homeless is a woman and something needs to be done(!)... which is another way of saying 3 out 4 homeless people are men, but that's not an issue.
There was a
documentary made on the mens rights that looks interesting but I've yet to see it (it was protested by feminists of course). Interesting because the woman who made it started it as an expose of misogynists but didn't find that, and came round to viewpoint that there were legitimate issues these men were trying to highlight.
That amazing revelation, that men have their own problems, was discovered by hardcore feminist
Norah Vincent some years earlier. At the end of her experiment on living as a man for 18mths she had a mental breakdown and 180 degree reversal on her opinion on men.
What's least surprising about the article above is The Guardian doesn't mention any of that.
www.unilad.co.uk
