Why is it assumed that the same content that young men are getting rage baited by has no effect on women?

TheGuyWhoTalksShit · 2026-04-24T06:24:08+00:00

In order to acknowledge that something is propaganda designed to divide and radicalize, you need to first realize it isn't true. And many people aren't even ready to admit that the things the internet says about crime, bears, rape statistics etc aren't true.

etymoticears · 2026-04-24T05:35:38+00:00

Galloway is not a friend of men. Nothing he says is not perfectly BBC/NPR friendly and in line with the dominant ideology. He seems very keen on boosting women, protecting them like special flowers and diminishing and blaming men. I think he is a fraud. He's also intolerably arrogant.

Hot-Celebration-1524 · 2026-04-24T06:45:18+00:00

Women on average value self-disclosure more than men, so there is a tendency especially online for this group to engage in co-rumination, where the same problems are repeatedly discussed without coming to any resolution. It's a negative feedback loop that wreaks havoc on mental health.

Also take into account that many of these discussions take place in “safe spaces,” where the goal is to be seen, heard, and believed. So questioning the accuracy of a claim is interpreted as invalidating the person, which goes against group norms. Misinformation is therefore less likely to be challenged and more likely to spread.

AdOtherwise3824 · 2026-04-24T14:13:48+00:00

The textbook example of "rage bait for women" is AskAubry. Seriously, look at her profiles on twitter and shit. It is just a wall of the most cherrypicked emotionally charged nonsense.

Ofc why people don't acknowledge that women can be rage baited is the "women are wonderful" effect. They're too smart and thought and emotionally intelligent to be rage baited /s

volatile-solution · 2026-04-24T06:29:42+00:00

follow the money. social media runs on engagement, and gender war slops are probably top machine for SM engagement.

that engagement must come at any cost, hence, corporations that own these SM will promote these rage-bait engagement machine to extreme levels. influencer industry is worth like a trillion dollars, so it is their interest, and SM companies, to maintain the grift that makes them money.

one of my friend, works for a SM consulting company, where they manage and advice influencers and content creators. he told me everything how shit works for these people, and they active advice for only one thing : engagement on their profile. and he told me gender wars online is a go-to for any influencers/content creators nowadays. tell a male influencer to post MRA stuff, female one to post feminist/misandrist stuff.

there is a girl i follow on instagram, she used to, post funny stuff on their insta page. eventually engagement decreased on her page, and she disappeared from my feed. many months later, she appears on my feed again, this time, with misandrist content that bashes, mocks and makes fun (in very, very malicious and bad faith) men. she still posts "funny" stuff, but now with misandrist stuff. no points for guessing that, misandrist content gets way, way more views and engagement than her ordinary content.

Centaur_Warchief123 · 2026-04-24T07:50:02+00:00

Women are wonderful effect. Men are stupid and get easily influenced, women are superior and don’t.

Initial_Zebra100 · 2026-04-24T07:04:30+00:00

Similar media is massive. It isnt enough to say it isn't real. Its how most people consume at least some information including viral sensational news.

I personally believe it definitely is massively impacting women. On average they spend more time on platforms than men (although the number is getting smaller). The algorithms feed negativity. There's a lot of horrible things happening. Of course theres postive sides to online content but still. Extreme rabbit holes exist for them as well.

Also Galloway is bad news. He has outdated ideas and beliefs, promotes stereotypes and thinks therapy is useless for men.

InfiniteParamedic351 · 2026-04-24T09:07:15+00:00

It's the classic "women are wonderful" effect that gets weaponized by conservatives and feminists alike.

android_lover · 2026-04-24T07:45:52+00:00

Women cope fine with being single because usually for them "single" doesn't mean completely alone.

aslfingerspell · 2026-04-24T17:22:30+00:00

This is a good point. There's a kind of fallacy that pops up in some political rhetoric that goes something like "My group's grievances are legitimate concerns and lived experiences. Your group's grievances are just Chomsky-style consent-manufacturing in service of some ulterior motive by people who aren't in your best interests. When I say something is a problem, I'm just reporting a real thing that exists. When you say something is a problem, you're fearmongering and creating hysteria. My social media is other people in my situation going through the same problems, like your social media is just ragebait your algorithm is feeding you."

Now that you mention it, I agree that there is a double standard where men's problems are seen as some kind of political manipulation, with no consideration that some grievances of women may be manipulated for political, social, or financial ends.

SPKEN · 2026-04-24T18:37:13+00:00

Because otherwise they'd have to acknowledge that women are the same species as men and hold them accountable for their actions.

And we all know that isn't happening

My_Legz · 2026-04-24T06:57:40+00:00

His whole thing is that women are good and so they are fine while men aren't good and therefore can't handle the modern world. If you look at what he says from that angle most of what he says makes sense inside of that framework

senescenzia · 2026-04-24T08:01:45+00:00

Given the generally worse female mental health and much worse screen addiction it's just plain lies to shore up support for his preferred social group according to his priors. Classic stuff.

generic_name · 2026-04-24T18:00:37+00:00

Many years ago the NYT did an article about foreign influence campaigns creating division in America through fake Facebook pages.

One of the examples was a feminist page designed to create extremism.

So yes, 100% there is a problem with indoctrination and propaganda within “feminist” rhetoric online (like the bear vs man debate).

AriochBloodbane · 2026-04-24T15:22:36+00:00

Let's say something controversial here. Most women are perfectly ok with sharing the top 10% of men with every other woman, as long as they have a go at it.

Listening to what single women actually say in real life let me understand how they don't care if 90% of men suddenly disappear from the planet. They rather fight 100 other women for the prize than settle with an average man.

Having said that, yes, there are single women who would rather have a serious relationship with a decent dude than joining the rat race, but they aren't online "influencing" so they don't count LOL

Also married women or in a long term relationship don't count either as they aren't in the dating pool.

anomalocarus · 2026-04-24T05:13:18+00:00

If women were perfectly content being single, they would not be posting online sharing all their intimate feelings and heightened emotions of how much they hate the dating market and how men are trash-with dozens of women in the comment section validating said opinions. If it was truly indifference, you would simply not see women talking about it at all-but it's quite the opposite, in fact.

The women that are fine being single are not online complaining about it. Theyre different people.

intothewild72 · 2026-04-24T10:47:00+00:00

I personally think women cope better being single

I don't agree at all. Men cope much better being single. I think you only consider small sliver of life. Basically teen and early 20's, then it's about equal, but soon after men would cope much better.

And this is only about being single, as not in close loving partnership. If we also include social interactions like friends, difference grows huge. When we check out people who prefer extreme solitude vast majority of those are men.

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ChimpPimp20 · 2026-04-26T01:50:42+00:00

Guess...

LoganCaleSalad · 2026-04-26T04:50:01+00:00

Boy be a shame if there was some sort of study that punches a hole right in the middle of this whole argument. Oh look, I'll just leave this here

Ok_Conversation_3815 · 2026-04-27T13:28:45+00:00

Something that has annoyed me about Professor Scott Galloway is pushing this rhetoric and notion that women are completely fine being single, while men will go on to rot and deteriorate if they don't have relationships.

It’s not a rethoric, we can see it in the suicide rates of both, and in the marriage satisfaction reports. If you care about men the first step is admitting our issues

If women were perfectly content being single, they would not be posting online sharing all their intimate feelings and heightened emotions of how much they hate the dating market and how men are trash

You can be both satisfied with being single, and be annoyed at the fact that you “have to be” since the standards of men that are found in the dating market is abysmal

Now, why is this relevant? Whenever I open social media (primarily IG), at least a quarter of the content is some woman complaining about men

The algorithm proposes you the content with which you engage, that conveniently is the one that induces anger in you to keep you on the platform. Your personal experience is not a good sample of the truth ESPECIALLY seen through the extremely distorted lens of social media

You see hundreds of comments from women effectively emphasizing said sentiment.

Yes there are women who are misandrist. Yes, said women will look and engage with the content that validates their idea, even if the original context / intent was different. Nothing new here.

I don’t get the point of the post to be honest. It’s nothing different from how the alt right works. Social media is not a realistic portrait of reality, and yes it influences people, but opening a social media page that does educational content is 10 times more effective than searching for validation on Reddit.

Title	Why is it assumed that the same content that young men are getting rage baited by has no effect on women?
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Date	April 23, 2026 9:32 PM UTC (3 months ago)
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