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View submission: Am I losing my mind??
stop reading stuff online and engage with men and women in real life. you will notice there is far more nuance and love in the real world. social media projects the most extreme experiences and opinions. i say this as a woman who has of course experienced misogyny and mistreatment but does go outside and have men in my social circle and a wonderful boyfriend.
i had to have this same realization (from the other side) as my feed was constantly pushing really misogynistic men and also hopeless stories of misogyny because I would doom-read the comments. I also intermittently delete all social media and tend to keep tiktok, instagram, threads, and twitter deleted 90% of the time to avoid the negativity.
Comment by eichy815 at 11/01/2025 at 00:41 UTC
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Agreed with this. I often wonder, when it comes to the people who post toxic and dystopian stuff online -- how many of them ***actually*** speak/behave like that when interacting with others throughout their daily lives...versus how many of them are much more polite in their daily lives, and use the Internet as a venue for cathartic release to say things that they wouldn't say in "the real world."
Comment by Easy_Percentage112 at 01/01/2025 at 21:04 UTC
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This is such an obvious answer that I find it difficult to believe that OP’s opinion (and many like his) is real. Or I guess it is but it is so far gone..?
Like… everyone has at least one parent right? Many has had siblings, cousins, uncles, aunts. Everyone went to at least primary school? Almost everyone has had more than one job? At least one extracurricular activity or hobby?
How is it possible to go through all that and still end up with the conclusion that the distribution of personal qualities *within* genders is not wide enough to include virtually all forms of personalities? How can they not realize there are a huge number of men with stereotypical female qualities and a huge number of women with stereotypical male qualities (irrespective of one values these qualities).
It makes me sad that people not only end up so lonely that rage bait social media is their only point of reference but also end up with some form of memory loss, forgetting the huge variety of men and women they (realistically) have had the fortunes or misfortunes to have met in their lives.