What fueled right wingers, fathers rights, mens' rights, gun rights & teabaggers into existence?

[KitSileya]

74. I read a really interesting article the other day -

it described the failure of a project started by a psychologist in response to the increase in digital harassment of children, which has a lot in common with how adults are harassed in comment threads and blogs - it seemed that children were learning how to tease and harass from adults. So this Norwegian psychologist tried to start a project called 'Generous Men' to counter act this type of foul trolls. The idea was to create a group of men who behaved as role models in internet debates, with a facebook page where those who wanted to participate could get together and talk, man to man. It took two weeks for the group to be trolled to death.


There's also been an increased focus on the vituperative hatred many women face if they speak in public. Sweden aired a documentary that showed how Swedish women faced death and rape threats, and doxxing etc when they spoke in public or on public internet debates. The threats are of a very specific type that aren't used against men, in that they mix violence and sex in pretty much all their threats.

The anger that lies behind this must be taken seriously, I believe. While part of it is, like Warpy posted elsewhere on this thread, that men have had the greatest loss of wages and job security since the 50s, that doesn't fully explain or excuse it. It's like people always say on the union threads - the solution isn't to pull the union jobs down to the level of minimum wage, but to pull the minimum wage jobs up to union wage and benefits. The same goes for the different groups at the bottom of society. We can rail against the 1% all we want, but as long as they manage to split us up because some groups refuse to see that other groups are more disadvantaged, we will not be able to overturn the 1%.