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Majority of Gen Z men say feminism has gone too far—but BofA study says wealthy women lift entire economy (fortune.com)

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A survey of more than 24,000 people across 30 countries revealed 57% of Gen Z men felt their nation had "gone so far in promoting women's equality that we are discriminating against men."

Six in 10 Gen Z men also said they were being asked to do too much to support women, with 28% adding that a father who stayed home to look after his children is less of a man than those who went to work.

Across the board, Gen Z had more extreme views on their role in creating an equal society than any other generation. For example, only 12% of baby boomers agreed with the statement that fathers staying home meant they were less of a man.

Overall, however, 62% of men across countries including the U.S., Australia, Great Britain, Canada, and Japan said that achieving gender equality is of personal importance to them."Despite the divisive headlines, our survey highlights that most people—including men—still agree that achieving gender equality…is important to them personally. Many problems we face are shared, and all genders can and should come together to address the challenges we face as a society, as only by uniting our efforts can we meet them."

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[–] millie@beehaw.org 19 points 4 days ago

I honestly think the internet is a major component of the problem. People online are not good ambassadors of any perspective, and a lot of them are literally working in bot farms with the express purpose of making people stupider and more divided. Like, imagine if your only exposure to leftist thinking was some of the vote-spoiling, feckless, whiny, disingenuous garbage that was polluting Lemmy so heavily leading up to the election. How much of the internet is just that?

In the same way that internet brain-rot has caused the right to devolve into ever-escalating authoritarian bootlickery and snowballing racist, queerphobic, misogynistic bigotry, it's also influenced portions of the left away from solidarity and practical change into useless infighting, finger-wagging, and ideological self-congratulation. In an environment where even a lot of genuine posters who haven't been explicitly hired to destroy society seem to favor dunking on people over actually getting anything done, it's not really surprising to see the advancement of progressive ideologies backsliding even while many of the ideas they promote become more popularized.

We need better tactics. Maybe most importantly, we need to figure out a way to combat this divisiveness for hire that's infecting every corner of the internet by some other means than just bickering with trolls.