I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing this advice to teach young boys to hit girls so as to restore the boys’ self esteem and pride.
This is the kind of toxic belief that shouldn’t be allowed to proliferate here and yet is embraced with open arms by other users.
That boys can only regain their pride and self esteem by hitting girls leads directly to more violence against women and girls.
It does have a wider problem. But IMO Not so much on this comment but more the general leery style posts that are frequent and upvoted.
I notice a lot more memes or ‘question’ that are angled slightly more towards sexualising or hating women, followed by jokey comments. Women are used it it, it registers, but it’s slight so it’s tolerated (because that’s life as a female…don’t rock the boat).
A majority of the Men do a reasonable job at calling it out here but only usually when it’s more blatant or obvious. The fact the kinda posts are upvoted and seem to be increasing disheartening.