The growth and developing popularity of online misogyny, be that in the form of content creation (manosphere podcasts, personalities blogs etc) and consumption is the result of the terminally online interacting with the opposite sex of the terminally online, and usually only them.

It's the logical endpoint of two very particular demographics - nerdy, irony drenched, detached men and and women - interacting with one another, and shaping their formative views on the opposite sex almost exclusively from this digital ecosystem.

Nerdy, "very online" women, particularly weeaboos and gamers, are more promiscuous than normal women: more "kinky", more liberal, more sexually open, more likely to take up sex work etc. The cosplayer to OF/SW pipeline isn't even a new thing. It was huge back in the late 00s too.

Very online men interact almost exclusively with these women. Women who send Skype or, more aptly now, Discord nudes at the drop of a hat. Who discovered the corrupting influence of the internet early on in life; who weren't popular among their female peers, but derived intense satisfaction from the fact they were popular among their WoW guild or men on their favourite bulletin board.

I'm convinced this is where an enormous part of online misogyny among nerdy men stems from. A good portion of them have just never interacted with women outside of this ecosystem. I feel as though nerdy women are just a very particular and specific group that struggle with sexual self control and are more likely to have mental illnesses like borderline personality disorder, and this makes them a very dangerous demographic to derive opinions on women as a whole from.

It would be like me taking pointers on what all American women are like solely from women in Portland.