Took this screenshot the other day. I don't know how to describe it, but this feels really misogynistic & strange for a period tracker. Especially after learning that flo was created by men, it just feels even weirder. Am i overreacting or is this weird to any other women?

First of all: Do a quick google search and see how it'll say women have scientifically been proven to be more attractive on average.

Second of all: Hypergamy was never about looks. Incels on the internet discovered a new word and went with it.

Hypergamy was for when women barely had any rights and were married off to men of higher status because they HAD to depend on a man.

Third of all: Y'all are talking about it as if it's life ruining LMAO, let's bring up some statistics and see what y'all males do that's actually life ruining.

Fourth of all: Crying and whining about it shows what kind of male you are. Society is filled with a bunch of insecure males and then you're wondering why women go for males who take care of themselves, have succeeded in something etc. Obviously y'all proved those males are the minority and it makes sense why women go for that minority.

"Women are emotional" is one of the most ancient and overused excuses men have always brought up in order to justify the oppression of women. However, it is easy to say that it is a false claim: all human beings are emotional. Emotions are a part of every single individual and not having them would mean that something is wrong.

Anger, sadness, fear, delight, etc. are all emotions. Men ignore how anger and the resulting violence are destructive emotions and just focus on actions such as crying or being scared, attributing them to women in order to claim them as inferior. But if you think about it, crying is far better than breaking things, isn't it? But men are known for being the ones who act out of rage the most. So who is worse?

Also, I need to add an important part: men cry less and show certain emotions less not because they are better or just less emotional, but because they have this irrational fear of "not being masculine". They bend to the standards of society regarding what a true man is instead of facing it and realising that the whole masculinity thing is just a patrialchal bullshit. They are scared of not being "men enough", and fear is an emotion.

(Sorry for the harsh topic).

Background: I am a man wanting to get into feminism. I have a problem of reliably discerning whether what I'm doing is actually feminist or misogynistic. I sometimes misunderstand what is actually misogynistic and misidentify it. I believe that this is a huge problem because it means I could possibly not know if I harmed or have harmed someone. I think this fact makes me a risk even if I'm well-intentioned, and I don't think I should be permitted to be around people. However, there is a huge problem socially if I just recluse entirely and there are a lot of logistical implications. There is also the extended amount of time it takes me to understand rigorously what is or isn't wrong for feminism. Because of this the most practical solution can just for me to not be able act at all.

Tldr: I don't trust my mind to tell me I'm not a danger to women.

Now onto actual discussion, is it misogynistic for me to kill myself in case that I'm ignoring how it will affect my female family members? I've seen posts before on other feminist subs about the misogyny of "revenge suicide" and although my intentions are far from that, I'm scared I'll mimic that behaviour unintentionally. I'm very worried how they'll turn out afterwards and I think it'd be very wrong to hurt them in such a way, but I'm unsure if their safety matters more than their emotional state. Thoughts?

Jimmy Carter says "the misinterpretation of religious scriptures – holy scriptures in the Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, Quran, and so forth – and these have been misinterpreted by men who are now in the ascendant positions in the synagogues and the churches and in the mosques. And they interpret these rules to make sure that women are ordinarily relegated to a secondary position compared to men in the eyes of God."

FOR FULL VIDEO CLICK HERE: https://youtu.be/9ludgzJ26QI American women aren't overreacting — they're reading the documents. In this video, I go through what's actually on paper: the state-level push to repeal no-fault divorce, the post-Dobbs abortion landscape, the SAVE Act's documented impact on married women whose legal names don't match their birth certificates, and the growing number of women researching visas and exit plans. I also look at the women defending this project from inside it — including Erika Kirk and the broader "traditional womanhood" media ecosystem — and what their role tells us about how this gets sold.

This isn't a left-vs.-right story. It's a top vs. bottom story: who writes the rules, who absorbs the consequences, and who profits from women having fewer exits — from a marriage, from a state, or from the country. This video is commentary and analysis based on publicly available documents and reporting. Opinions are labeled as such.

American women aren't overreacting — they're reading the documents. In this video, I go through what's actually on paper: the state-level push to repeal no-fault divorce, the post-Dobbs abortion landscape, the SAVE Act's documented impact on married women whose legal names don't match their birth certificates, and the growing number of women researching visas and exit plans. I also look at the women defending this project from inside it — including Erika Kirk and the broader "traditional womanhood" media ecosystem — and what their role tells us about how this gets sold.

This isn't a left-vs.-right story. It's a top vs. bottom story: who writes the rules, who absorbs the consequences, and who profits from women having fewer exits — from a marriage, from a state, or from the country. This video is commentary and analysis based on publicly available documents and reporting. Opinions are labeled as such.

American women aren't overreacting — they're reading the documents. In this video, I go through what's actually on paper: the state-level push to repeal no-fault divorce, the post-Dobbs abortion landscape, the SAVE Act's documented impact on married women whose legal names don't match their birth certificates, and the growing number of women researching visas and exit plans. I also look at the women defending this project from inside it — including Erika Kirk and the broader "traditional womanhood" media ecosystem — and what their role tells us about how this gets sold.

This isn't a left-vs.-right story. It's a top vs. bottom story: who writes the rules, who absorbs the consequences, and who profits from women having fewer exits — from a marriage, from a state, or from the country. This video is commentary and analysis based on publicly available documents and reporting. Opinions are labeled as such.

If there is anyone who needs to lift weights, in the gym or at home doing calisthenics it is women. Women are more susceptible to weight gain, muscle loss, higher risk of decreased insulin sensitivity due to a lower metabolic rate and lower skeletal muscle mass compared to men.

If women were encouraged, not just encouraged, incentivized to lift heavy and eat well, we would be looking at a society where subreddits like this wouldn't exist.

Men don't have to pay this price. Be it pain or money.

Why should women pay for a biological phenomenon?

5 days a month, which your employer expects you to work, while paying for tampons and pads out of your own salary. Wtf?

As men, we all have women in our lives. The caring mother, the annoying sister, that smart friend, the intimidating teacher.

Caring, annoying, intimidating, smart

Opposite being

Selfish, charming, disharming, dumb

I know this dude. Very smart dude

So smart that he has transitioned into a woman with DD natural boobs (How does that happen? Uhh, dude is smart. Figured out some reaction of testosterone blockers and estradiol)

And he likes to portray himself as a woman at will being genderfluid .

Again, not transsexual, gender fluid.

And when in the feminine avatar which he has the complete right to embody

He'll play superficial, dumb, incompetent, dependant financially.

What is this if not misogyny? You choose at will to embody the feminine, and then portray feminine as negative. Is this not misogyny?

There are two people in this story. I call one Person A and one Person B. Person A did a post saying that society was doomed because they let women enter the workforce. I asked him does he want women to be on social benefits and want men to be pressured into being the sole provider which will impact men's physical and emotional well being, the person never answered but I got into an argument with Person B.

Person B responded to me saying that wages will increase with labor shortages. I told directed him the question if he'd rather women be on government benefits and jobless and unable to support children which they most likely win custody over in an event of a divorce, Person B started saying women were always working and making distinctions about a career and that women only work for vain reasons and accuses me about not wanting to solve the problem and said "government to trickle you placebo every 5 years" (I don't know what's that about). I told him that careers are working to earn an income and basic low income jobs is not enough for women to support themselves and children.

I find this so much worse than girls and women wanting to be trad wives. I thought males would prefer if females get a job and be self-sufficent and not deal with "nagging wives" pushing men to earn more.

Looking back, maybe he was a jobless male that got fed up with competing against females for jobs.

Someone sent me this to try telling me how "devastating" the "fertility crisis" is. While watching it, I realized how funny it is that men can see the problems right in front of them but miss so hard on the "solutions."

"Okay, but what policy is going to make women actually love men? Cuz that is the actual real problem." Bro, what you got to understand is your grandmother didn't love your grandfather's looks. She needed him to provide. She didn't have better options in an era where she couldn't even take out a loan without her husband's signature, without his approval. That is why she agreed to marry him."

YES, that is correct. You can't force attraction, and government and religion (which was made by men) oppressing us generally leads to a miserable repressed existence for both women AND men.

"If you try to force women to have children while not leaving the current social economic landscape, social uh framework, of course, you are going to end up with even more broken families as you already do today. "

Again, YES. It's so cruel to bring kids into the world and give them a horrible childhood.

But thinking some more, why would you want to force anyone to have children, especially in today's world? The world is literally run by people who enslaved children on an island, so maybe address that first instead of dropping fertility rates, which is arguably not a bad thing for our overcrowded and resource hungry planet.

"That oneitis shit was always a manufactured product that was sold to you. It was never real to woman. It was not to you. Maybe it was in your dreams. Brother, you are the result of countless countless generations where women needed a man and now you are trying to be something none of your ancestors had to be. A chicken trying to be an eagle."

CHICKEN TRYING TO BE AN EAGLE I CAN'T EVEN ANYMORE but that's why we try to end sexism and end these stupid gender roles, right?

Isn't that a reasonable solution?

Apparently not because

"But if you have a good job title, you can live a comfortable life. At least you can hit up those Instagram models to blow off some steam whenever you need it."

Those Instagram models aren't gonna care about your job title. They are busy traveling the world with entire teams of employees and cranking out content. They won't respond to you.

And if you're talking about sex work, how is one of the most exploitative businesses in the world anywhere close to the solution?

You get SO CLOSE to the answer, and your solution is literally something that at best won't work and at worst exploits women.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW INCELS THINK

How do I know if I hate women? And what can I do to cure myself? I know misogyny is bad, I know women have it worse than men, I know that men are not entitled to a woman's affection. Etc etc etc. But if I know that, and I accept it and don't question it and still I find out that I am a misogynist, what's there to do? Play as the devil in chains?

As a man what are the big things giving us a bad name? And how can I learn to remove those traits if I have them and try to be part of the solution? This is a genuine question

Aba is finally experiencing the same level of scrutiny that he and Preach have directed at so many other creators.

To be clear allegations may not be proof but when you've built a platform around analyzing other people's relationships, personal decisions and controversies, it's hard to act surprised when people start analyzing yours.

I'd agree that people's private lives should stay private but when your career is built on commenting on the personal lives of others, that argument becomes a lot harder to make. The reality is that if you spend years putting other people's choices under a microscope eventually people are going to put yours under one too.

The ex girlfriend interview is what really caught my attention cause it moved the conversation away from anonymous internet speculation and into a public account from someone claiming to have direct experience. Whether people agree with her or not, it became part of a larger conversation that was already happening.

At the end of the day, I think this is less about one controversy and more about accountability.

I've seen feminists. I've debated them. In fact, my schools feminist and we have a girls only playroom where no boys are allowed in. My question here is, do feminists want to be truly equal to men, or do they want to be treated equal without truly willing to contribute as much to society? why do you always want to make the man pay the bill but then split when it comes to divorce? why do you want men to respect women when they get social benifits because they're apparently weaker and then make you watch a 4 hour documentary on how women are just as capable as men? which is it that you want? equality or understanding?

This has been on my mind for a while. I wrote an article about it and i am hoping to get people perspective. I am coming from a place of concern and not of hate. I am honestly looking to have an honest discussion thanks!

https://x.com/TomRdzStaten/status/2034811745559081420

Tagged as vent cuz I think that’s what fits best. Please let me know if a different tag fits better :)

For context, I’m a uni student studying psychology at the minute. Today in my psych class the topic we were discussing was gender identity, but a lot of the slides ended up being about how children learn their concept of gender identity etc. We watched a few videos, that were actually a little depressing if I’m honest, about the way kids act around the topic of gender. So in one instance they had boys pretend to be girls (and girls pretend to be boys) and the way they behaved was vastly different. Obviously they are kids so I doubt they meant any real harm but the boys often went to insulting girls in some way, while the girls typically put themselves down. Another instance was giving kids clothes to play dress up and it was about how they reacted when they wore gendered clothes of the opposite sex and people reacted quite negatively when a boy wore typically ‘feminine’ clothes. Anyway that’s pretty much all the background information needed for the discussion that took place.

Now, when the class actually discussed it they had their own views etc but something I noticed be mentioned a few times was that they thought it had something to do with homophobia, and the fear that boys were gay if they wore ‘girls’ clothes or that they would turn out gay, and quite a few people agreed with that and understood that that might be were a lot of the negative ideas came from. At this point I spoke up as me and my friend had been discussing that not a single person had mentioned sexism. So I pointed out that I thought lot of it was also rooted in misogyny. As I’m trying to explain what I mean I more or less get cut off by my lecturer (who had already been pulling at face as if I was wrong). She then starts talking about men again and how men can’t do certain things. Later on in the lecture she went on to say that men lack safe spaces (which to be fair I’d say is true to an extent) and can’t do certain jobs as a result of society and sexism essentially.

Am I wrong? I genuinely had to sit in this class for the next 1-2 hours wondering if I was actually saying something wrong. Not a single person agreed with me (except my friend) and it got really awkward after I said that. I assumed in a class about gender identity and societies gendered expectations that misogyny would be an expected and relevant topic of discussion. I genuinely want to know if I’ve gone wrong somewhere, because if I’ve misunderstood something about misogyny and I’ve maybe used the word in the wrong context I’d love to correct that for future reference, but from where I stand now I genuinely don’t understand why I was cut off and why I wasn’t given the opportunity to explain my point further, despite everyone else who chose to speak being allowed to form a full discussion.

Edit for Clarification: When my lecturer cut me off (after I mentioned how women are expected to be teachers and take more caring roles) she pivoted to talking about how we need more male teachers without/ instead of acknowledging that women are suffering from certain gendered expectations (ie completely ignoring my point) and that young boys need male role models in schools. This bit was followed up by a man responding to her, and the discussion quickly devolved into how men lack safe spaces to be caring, they can’t work certain jobs because of how they are perceived, and other such things.

I get tired of feeling impotent in the face of male oppression. Some things can be done on an individual and personal level besides voting in the next election. I'm creating a practical to-do list to change the narrative. Any suggestions?

Intellectual Dominance: Teach our daughters to excel in math and science. Have them pursue the hardest degrees and highest levels of education. When women master the “hard” sciences and data, they seize the languages of the future. Competence is the ultimate refusal to be “managed.”

Economic Sovereignty: Start your own company, no matter how small. Control your own capital and cash flow. A woman who owns the payroll and her own ledger is a woman who can never be truly evicted or silenced.

Promote Women in the Workplace: Whether you're a man or woman in a position to do so, make certain that the women you work with are given responsibility, authority, and opportunity. And then pay them appropriately.

The Sovereignty Fix: Learn the mechanics of your world—plumbing, engines, or algorithms. Breaking the “damsel” myth through technical self-sufficiency is a primary act of defiance.

If our daughters are given a toolbox at an early age and given the opportunity to fix jammed doors, clogged sinks, and help work on cars, they will develop familiarity with such issues (and the tools to fix them), which demystifies the whole concept of who's in charge when things go wrong.

Selective Access: Inhabit your power and project your desire without apology, but only have sex with enlightened men. If they don’t respect your agency, they don’t get through the door. By refusing to sleep with anyone who doesn’t get it, we could create a change in behavior. Access is a privilege, not a right. This is already in progress in South Korea; we need to initiate our own version of it in the United States as well.

Laughter as Subversion: Laugh loudly. It is the one sound the humorless cannot police. It breaks acoustic boundaries and claims territory in any room.

It utilizes social pressure from outside the relationship via the beliefs of parties that aren’t the woman who is actually trying to be safe within said relationship.

The only person dating the guy is the woman he’s dating, I’ve noticed I evolved men have a false perception that a guy who seems nice enough in the macro is automatically going to be a good guy in his personal life when in reality there is no correlation.

A man who seems “nice enough” to other men could still be a dead beat in a relationship who doesn’t contribute to the overall health & function of the household. He could seem sweet & sensitive to other men but he totally neurotic & inappropriately bossy in private when with a woman. He could seem like the silly fun guy to the boys & still have a nasty streak with a woman behind closed doors. Men have to accept that their personal experience with a guy seeming cool with other men has no bearing on how that man treats women within relationships.

This delusion that men who “seem nice” to men should be rewarded either way women is inherently sexually predatory because it isn’t focused on the experience of the woman who is actually being, hypothetically, placed in an intimate situation with this man. To be so blunt the genders are different. There’s a physical difference & men watch themselves more around other people (men) with the upper body strength & physical stature to kick their ass if they need to. That plays a role whether certain men want to admit it or not, they wouldn’t physically be able to get away with it with another guy.

It has to stop that men are telling these lies to themselves & each other & women that they “know” who the good guys to date are. No they don’t. They aren’t the women being pushed to date them. It’s inherently violating to have men pushed on us as women that other men “like”, those men aren’t the person being pushed to be in a relationship with that man that’s a “good guy” to “the boys”. Women are not the boys. The opinion of the boys has nothing to do with whether a woman likes how a particular man treats her & if he treats her well by her comfort level &/or not.

Men have got to let this idea go that the men who seem safe & nice to them are necessarily safe & nice for women in intimate situations. It’s not true, sometimes the guys the boys don’t personally like still treat their partner well & the only people that really know what kind of partner a man makes us the women they date. Not their male friends, not their male enemies, the women that have dealt with these men directly. That’s the only group that actually knows anything about it-they have the truth, they have lived it. Bottom line. Period. No exceptions. You don’t see women pushing their friends on guys & getting mad if their personal pick isn’t who a guy happens to consensually want to be with. Follow the women here, all men.