Trigger warning: i’m going to be talking about gender-based violence & r*pe culture in this episode. If the topic of violence against women brings up heavy emotions for you, please contact 1800 RESPECT in Australia, or Women’s Information and Referral Exchange, AKA WIRE, at 1300 134 130.
TIMESTAMPS
00.40: TW – gender based violence & r*pe culture
01.03: australia’s epidemic of gender-based violence
02.05: misogyny is a multifaceted problem – economic, judicial, social, intersectional
03.35: defining “the manosphere”
04.17: communities within the manosphere
05.01: manosphere overlaps with alt-right & far-right communities
05.50: defining the “incel”
06.17: memes & beliefs of incels
06.59: the concept of “hypergamy”
08.19: how the manosphere influences young men’s beliefs around women
09.43: challenges faced by young men today
09.56: N.E.E.Ts – men not in education, employment or training
10.48: how young men dropping out of education have literacy issues
11.55: paradox of social media – despite how connected we are, we’re more lonely than ever before
12.45: how the architecture of social media feeds into the loneliness epidemic
14.04: how loneliness feeds into nihilism which breeds misogyny and violence
14.48: the radicalisation pipeline according to ex-incels
15.11: how online misogyny leads to real-world terrorism
16.49: director-general of ASIO on the changing face of terrorism
17.29: potential solution #1 empathy
18.25: THE “GENDER WARS” AREN’T A ZERO-SUM GAME
18.43: gender binary is so intellectually lazy and restrictive tbh
20.05: potential solution #3 – educating men on how a capitalist patriarchal system affects us all
20.33: potential solution #4 – parental supervision online & video games
21.14: potential solution #5 – critical thinking & literacy skills in identifying misinformation
21.33: potential solution #6 – holding social media platforms to account for the content published on their platforms
22.26: potential solution #7 – social media platforms should make their content algorithms public
23.53: traditional media stoking gender wars & ragebait content
24.10: potential solution #8 – social media age restrictions should be 16yo minimum + enforced
Recommended reading: “Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age” by Donna Zuckerberg
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