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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

There was some sub on Reddit (not beatingwomen, but same vibe) that constantly had videos of women slapping or smacking a guy and then getting absolutely cold-clocked in retaliation and it was always so gross to me. Like damn dawg you were really just waiting for the opportunity.

It’s fine to not want people to smack or slap you, but proportional response exists and knocking someone out over a slap ain’t it. I can’t help but wonder how much violence that encourages to just have stuff like that dropped into the feeds of millions of people.

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yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
In my lifetime, most bigotries have been in decline. But misogyny is bad and getting worse. Those Reddit videos, as far as I can tell, are just feeding some desire that some dudes have to hit women. That shit didn’t come from a few posters, it didn’t even come from a few subs; but it made it to the frontpage almost every day.

Weak men are violent to women because they’re pitiful. The man who dreams of a woman to control has given up on the idea of a woman to love. And the idea that a woman could love him. When I was young, people like this were ashamed. Incel culture is like a pride parade for loosers and pussies.

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Seralth@piefed.seralth.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m more in the side of equal right equal fights. Man or woman if you assault someone expect to get hit back.

A normal dude slapping a construction worker is also likely to get laid out flat. Same logic between most men and women. Everyone is built different and if your goanna swing be prepared for the other person to not hold back.

But the rise of videos glorifying it is disgusting. It goes well beyond equality, reason or fair defense of self.

It’s just fucking glorifying violent for the sake of it most of the time. It’s awful.

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Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
People love to see a woman put in her place. If you watch courtroom footage videos you’ll see a similar pattern- like 50-75% of reccomended and highly watched videos are just “this woman sucks, watch her get put in her place”

And the other videos aren’t “man gets put in his place”, they’re other groups someone might have issues with or that might be high profile and significant- cops, lawyers, judges, landlords, tennants. Bonus points if you’re also a woman. But if you’re a woman it doesn’t matter what group you’re in, you can be cast as the villain.

And theres a way the fact that those do well algorithmically warps your perception of people. If you scroll through that reddit feed for an hour it’d be unsurprising to walk away thinking women are shithead instigators of violence, but it would be hard for that to more severely misrepresent violence women are involved in. Now imagine how being on reddit for years and years and just getting exposed to those innocuously on r/all effects you.

The algorithm picks what’s engaging to people, and people are DEEPLY engaged by seeing a woman put in her place. If you learn to recognize the pattern you can see how algorithms warp our understanding of the world offline

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- Seralth@piefed.seralth.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A large chunk of that is those TV shows purposefully pick women who make for good “villains”.
  
  They do it to men as well. But throwing a woman up who is attempting to hide behind a double standard makes for “good” tv.
  
  It’s just rage bait tv basically.
  
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  - Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not even necessarily a villain, just “good TV”. I remember a video, I think it was Lindsay Ellis, about “people make a scene getting arrested” videos, and noting that most of them seem to be of older, white, conservative American women, and supposing that they’re the ones making a scene because they’re the ones the cops harras the least, so when it happens it comes as a shock, and they flip out.
    
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    Seralth@piefed.seralth.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh God I haven’t thought about Lindsay’s in a long time. I want to say your right. If I recall it was her very videos that made me aware of the trend. Lol
    
    I should go watch some of her old videos again.
    
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gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
/r/pussypassdenied

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- Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s the one, Christ almighty what a name. I wonder if it ever got banned or if it’s still going? (No way I’m checking to find out)
  
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Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah. I thought it was gonna be him slapping her back or something, but no, she’s slapping him and he absolutely rocks her shit for it.

Man on man, that would be grossly disproportionate. I dont know why its different when its a woman.

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