I keep seeing posts mentioning this phenomenon more and more often.

For instance:

More and more men are being sucked into parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content, leaving their families to deal with the wreckage

‘Andrew Tate phenomena’ surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

Like, why? Why now? Why even? I really wish I had a time machine where I could go to the future and ask them what the general reasons were for this social development. But I feel like I’m looking for the specific thorn on a cactus that popped my balloon.

  • arararagi@ani.social
    271·
    4 days ago

    The right wing has easy answers for complex problems, so it’s easier for them to recruit frustrated, average people.

    • bluewing@lemm.ee
      191·
      4 days ago

      And the left is often paralyzed by the “complexity” of a solution and offers little no refuge for those in need. Sadly making those half baked ignorant simple solutions the only thing offered.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        And the left is often paralyzed by the “complexity” of a solution and offers little no refuge for those in need

        Always, because they’re not stupid, if they were, they’d be Conservatives … and the answer to complex problems are not simple. That can’t change.

        Alas, with Tate etal,

        It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” - Franz Kafka

        "I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. . - John Stuart Mill

        • bluewing@lemm.ee
          1·
          40 minutes ago

          You have missed the point entirely. It’s not that complex problems can be solved by “one simple trick that conservatives hate.” It’s that the complexity of the problem often prevents the left from even taking the first step to any solution.

          Solving complex problems often requires multiple steps towards to mitigation. But, one needs to take that first step. And there needs to be dirt under those fingernails at the end of the day as a reminder of the work actually done.