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My impression is that parents are increasingly alarmed at young boys becoming bitter misogynists. Maybe that isn't happening and it's just a moral panic? Or maybe those boys watching lots of pornography and coming to believe that women are whores are two entirely unrelated phenomenons?

Media diet shapes what we are, and kids are more impressionable than most. It is therefore natural and reasonable for parents to want some control over what media gets fed to their kids.

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iamacyborg 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> My impression is that parents are increasingly alarmed at young boys becoming bitter misogynists

This seems more in line with the increase of mysoginist influencers (Andrew Tate and the like) and less to do with porn. The former of course being the type of content that social media companies are more than happy to proactively promote to children.

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lupusreal 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why are they in a state of mind where people like Andrew Tate resonant with them in the first place?

	▲	iamacyborg 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Because they’re young and impressionable.

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ndriscoll 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not particularly familiar with Tate or his story, but wasn't he literally arrested for human trafficking in connection with a porn site that he ran? And that site was part of the start of his "Internet" career? And part of his shtick is bragging about being an "Internet pimp" and running said site?

	▲	iamacyborg 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		He was but he’s more well known for his social media posting than for his cam site stuff
	▲	Sohcahtoa82 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Andrew Tate is basically the core of the Manosphere [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manosphere
	▲	ryandrake 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Even the stuff that’s less extreme than Tate should be totally unacceptable for children and teens to access. Not just the “manosphere” but everything adjacent to it: the alt-right, Nazis and White Supremecists, Qanon, conspiracy sites, flat earthers, antivaxxers, cryptoscammers and so on. They are all in orbit of the same dark barycenter of toxicity. I’d rather my kid accidentally run into porn than them accidentally run into this garbage. But guess which one I have to worry about all the algorithms steering my kid to? Hint: it’s not the porn.

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fc417fc802 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think that's quite what's happening, I think the phenomenon in question is occurring primarily within a specific age group, and I think it doesn't correlate with porn availability or consumption.

If X predates A by a long time then any attribution of A to X is going to need extensive evidence.

I think the phenomenon you refer to has to do with politics and culture. It's loosely related to the pendulum swinging back against DEI type stuff. Depending on your political persuasion you might replace "bitter misogynists" with something like "angry cynics".