Tbh, I shouldn't even have to debate this; it's insane such an obvious fact is lost on so many women (and it's also very telling of women's extremely low levels of cognitive empathy). You unironically have a lot of women throwing a fit over the existence of influencers such as Andrew Tate, Fresh n Fit, Nick Fuentes, etc, thinking they're brainwashing young men into misogyny and "right-wing extremism". In reality, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

The simple reason that young men are subscribing to manosphere and right-wing ideologies is because of the sheer extent to which they are demonized and poorly treated in progressive/feminist spaces. In these spaces, you see absolutely egregious double standards in terms of how men vs women are treated: women are celebrated for whatever bad behavior they perform, no matter how unreasonable, while men are immediately demonized for any behavior a woman doesn't like, no matter how noble. Whenever a woman faces a struggle, it's men's and society's fault, and society needs to step up to help her; yet whenever a man faces the same struggle, it's their own fault and they have to get their act together (examples: loneliness, unrealistic beauty standards, oppressive gendered social expectations). In general, men are collectively blamed for basically all of society's ills (though of course, accountable for none of society's goods), and they are shown only mocking and dehumanization rather than any kind of empathy for their own issues.

And whenever a man tries to point this out in progressive spaces, or argue against any of the feminist dogma, he's immediately shunned and branded an "inc*l misogynist", and all his arguments are met with nothing but bad-faith insults and idiotic thought-terminating cliches.

Now for feminists, of course there is nothing wrong with all this, because they subscribe to the oppressor/victim framework in which members of a victim class are morally justified to engage in whatever shitty behavior they like towards members of the oppressor class. But normal men don't see the world through the lens of bastardized postmodern critical theory (and of course they are demonized as "uneducated" for this), so they don't agree it's fair to be endlessly blamed and demonized simply for being "historically privileged". This is doubly true for GenZ men, who haven't experienced actual male privilege at all and whose female peers haven't seen a day of oppression in their lives.

So since young men are treated so poorly in mainstream progressive spaces, the only alternative turns out to be fringe manosphere spaces, which actually take the time to understand their perspectives and validate their feelings. In these spaces, their struggles are met with empathy and understanding, rather than an immediate branding as an "entitled inc*l misogynist".

Is it then any wonder at all why men are increasingly turning to right-wing and manosphere ideologies? If you were a young man, which group would YOU choose?

The reason young men are turning to right wing and manosphere ideologies isn't because of any kind of "brainwashing" by the media or influencers. It's simply because these spaces are the only places where young men can receive basic human decency and have their voices heard.