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Social media is obsessed with 'performative men'-also known as men

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Social media is obsessed with 'performative men'-also known as men

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The manosphere is being blamed for extremism

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The manosphere is being blamed for extremism

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Battle of the sexes? The widening gender divide in US politics • FRANCE 24 English

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Women in politics face misogyny and abuse - O’Neill

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Some commentary around women in political leadership is “reprehensible”, says Michelle O’Neill.

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In 1989, a schoolgirl asked Gerald Ford what advice he had for a young lady wanting to become US president, as he had been. "It won't happen in the normal course of events," he predicted. Instead, a man would win the presidency with a female running mate, and the woman would take over because the man would die in office. After that, he suggested, men would have to fight hard to even become the nominee.

Video of that encounter went viral after Joe Biden quit his re-election bid and Democrats rallied behind Kamala Harris. Ford's prediction and his acknowledgment that female politicians are unfairly dismissed had new resonance, though of course Mr Biden is alive and it is still a matter of hope, not fact, that the US will see its first female president. Any Democratic nominee would face a difficult race. But even after Barack Obama became the first black president, and after female leaders such as Angela Merkel and Jacinda Ardern have commanded international respect and admiration, some fear that the racism and misogyny Ms Harris faces could prove insurmountable, though she inspires and energises other voters.

Four years ago, Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud, remarking of her that "we're not going to have a socialist president. Especially any female." JD Vance, his running mate, described Ms Harris and others as "childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too". Online attacks from their supporters have been even more vicious, bigoted and graphic - and may well alienate moderate voters. For many, however, the prejudice is unconscious. Research has repeatedly shown that in politics, as in other walks of life, "women leaders are perceived as competent or liked, but rarely both".

Macho attitudes and patriarchal values have been fostered and legitimised by strongmen worldwide in recent years. Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen are ample proof that women can also be prominent in far-right movements and do little for other women. But a marked political gender gap has emerged in many places in the last few years. In the US, polling suggests women aged 18 to 30 are now 30 percentage points more liberal than men of that age.

Similar gaps are evident in countries from the UK and Poland to Tunisia and South Korea - where a backlash against demands for women's rights was central to the 2022 election. The country has the highest gender pay gap of any Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development nation, yet President Yoon Suk Yeol claims structural discrimination does not exist, and won over angry young men by vowing to abolish the ministry of gender equality. The contest was an alarming harbinger of how not just regressive but explicitly anti-feminist attitudes can be politically weaponised. In Argentina, Javier Milei followed suit and won the presidency.

Ford predicted that the 1990s would see a female president; the US had already seen a vice-presidential nominee (and in the UK, of course, Margaret Thatcher was then prime minister). But it took until 2008 before there was another, Sarah Palin, and 2016 before Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential nominee of a major party. Now Ms Harris has her shot. Like women around the world, she faces not only old stumbling blocks, but new strains of misogyny. The unfairness and extremity of attacks upon her, however, could yet help to fuel a groundswell of support.

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The Guardian view on female political leaders: new strains of misogyny fuel old battles | Editorial

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Editorial: The vitriol directed at Kamala Harris demonstrates how far there is to go - and a gender gap is emerging among young voters

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Political Violence Against Women: A Form of Misogyny? - Logos Journal

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Misogyny — contempt for women — is as old as patriarchy. However, it has taken new forms globally as women have increasingly gained prominence in fields like politics. Assertions of women’s power in domains that were traditionally the purview of men have given rise to new anxieties among some men, resulting in verbal, digital, and…

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ast Tuesday a report revealed the extent of sexual assault against female surgeons; on Wednesday a poll showed that sexual harassment was contributing to girls' declining happiness; at the weekend the Russell Brand revelations dominated the news cycle. On Sunday we heard how students are now offered consent training alongside climbing and debating clubs at freshers' weeks as universities grapple with a rise in sexual violence on campuses.

So passed the week: a barrage of headlines - followed by a social media chorus of defenders, conspiracy theorists and victim shamers - revealing, yet again, the depths of society's misogyny. And that was just the UK. Worldwide, in virtually every profession you can think of, institutions are rushing to respond to allegations that - as the title of the Brand documentary references - happened "in plain sight", in a culture that enabled offenders.

As the campaigner Laura Bates says, there's a collective tendency to assume that society gets progressively better, more equal; but every day brings another grim reminder that we're living through an epidemic of misogyny. If it is hard for adults to process that reality, it is even worse for children. Commentators - rightly - point out how exposure to sexist abuse is crippling girls' self-esteem. But let's not forget that boys are also navigating their way through this cesspit.

The other day, my 13-year-old mentioned that Andrew Tate's podcast had popped up on his Spotify feed. I was glad he told me - and relieved that he didn't want to listen to it - but, in the rush to get out of the house for school/work, I didn't dwell on that brief chat. Thinking about it later that day made me want to cry - and scream at a world where pushing back against the likes of Tate and his ilk is now part of everyday parenting: eat your broccoli, go to bed on time, and don't get sucked into the worldview of an extremist TikTok star.

Of course I'm talking about Tate with my son, as are many parents, horrified at his influence. But these conversations need to go on outside the home too. Schools should be given the resources to address the damage Tate has wreaked - instead they're being told to avoid the topic; men have to be involved in creating change, not looking on helplessly from the sidelines; governments need to do more than cringeworthy campaigns; social media platforms must be held to account not just here but in every place where the internet has allowed the rise of toxicity.

The 2023 Gender Snapshot, published ahead of this week's UN Summit, warned that the world is failing women and girls. It is failing boys and young men too.
Isabel Choat, commissioning editor, Global Development

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'Eat your broccoli and don't listen to Andrew Tate': fighting misogyny is now part of everyday parenting | Isabel Choat

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Pushing back against malignant influences has sadly become a common topic between parents and children, but the conversation needs to go on outside the home

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74K views · 149 reactions | Are male teachers the key to fighting misogyny among young boys? With only 1 in 7 of the teachers in British schools, male in nursery and primary, Ashley and Nick share their thoughts. | This Morning

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Are male teachers the key to fighting misogyny among young boys? With only 1 in 7 of the teachers in British schools, male in nursery and primary, Ashley and Nick share their thoughts.. 