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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is the female equivalent of men who post on places like Reddit's Red Pill: bitter, social awkward young men who lack the ability to view themselves realistically and generalize women in the most inflammatory ways possible. OP would fit right in if she was born with a Y chromosome.[/quote]

I'm actually pretty concerned about this and what it means for society in the long term and short term. Men and women both make out the opposite sex to be the root of all evil, projecting personal problems onto an entire group of people. It's sad. There are sex-based issues, of course. But the rampant generalizations and hostility are no good for actually solving any of those problems. [/quote]

I worry about this too, but I think (perhaps wishful thinking) most people are sensible enough not to paint everyone with such a broad brush.

The Internet has made it easier for less reasonable, perspective-impaired, people to get on the soapbox. In the past, people like this would already be well known within their community as someone whose opinions tend to be a bit extreme and should be taken with a grain of salt. On the Internet, anonymity means that the village idiot has an equal standing with a thoughtful, empathic person.

Just replace "opposite sex" with other races or religions and you basically have the human condition. Some people are always predisposed towards aggressively judging the Other, however they define it.[/quote]

True. It's just that I see it on mainstream sites as well- not just anonymous parenting boards where people work out their aggression- and it's troubling.[/quote]

I think every gender (and religion, race, etc.) has its own challenges that aren't immediately obvious to people who are not members of their in-group. The Internet has made it easier for each of these groups to circle the wagons into their little echo chambers where discussions about how the in-group is being eternally victimized by the out-group. I think this is particularly noticeable in younger people (<30) where opinions and world views seem to be getting increasingly polarized along gender and racial lines, perhaps because they do not remember a time before the media fragmentation took off.[/quote]

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