The fact that a mass cat fishing designed to embarrass and disgrace men was called a “social experiment.” Is problematic.

14 points•6 comments•submitted by tomthedemonslayer to r/maleempowerment

This incident was actually a mass cat fishing. Lying about your motives on a dating/hookup app is bad enough but proceeding to humiliate any men who actually remained out of attraction to the lady who organized it is completely problematic.

Why? Because this same cruel joke could never be repeated with women as the subject. It’s an enormous double standard.

Even if it wasn’t intended to be cruel that’s what it was. Humiliating several hundreds of guys just for being interested in a woman.

This type of behavior is inherently selfish. Why? Because no ethical social scientist would condone public humiliation and emotional abuse for an experiment. I mean for Pete’s sake. There wasn’t even a point to the experiment. There was no conclusive or useful data or established methodology.

It was simply a set up to belittle mass amounts of men for no reason other than it could be done and no one would bat an eye at it because the victims were guys just trying to meet an attractive girl.

That’s not Okay. It is the very definition of problematic.