I’m highlighting how this is a huge issue, they’re downplaying it and saying male height insecurity hasn’t been played up by Russian and other national interests, and I not only know for a fact they were, I have had firsthand access to the scenes behind the curtains where people have been on the frontline of tracking and stopping foreign online influence. A lot of great people did a lot of great work we’ll never hear about, but enough of the shit bled through and took hold in American culture that it will never be shaken now. We have several generations of backwards, dark-ages masculinity bullshit and gender division ahead of us because we were too tolerant of intolerance and we didn’t take threats seriously. Like the user above.
I appreciate you understanding the issue, but to say we’re both right is a contradiction in this context.
You’re both right, though. Russia is amplifying the toxic masculinity culture, which absolutely started in the pre-internet era.
I’m highlighting how this is a huge issue, they’re downplaying it and saying male height insecurity hasn’t been played up by Russian and other national interests, and I not only know for a fact they were, I have had firsthand access to the scenes behind the curtains where people have been on the frontline of tracking and stopping foreign online influence. A lot of great people did a lot of great work we’ll never hear about, but enough of the shit bled through and took hold in American culture that it will never be shaken now. We have several generations of backwards, dark-ages masculinity bullshit and gender division ahead of us because we were too tolerant of intolerance and we didn’t take threats seriously. Like the user above.
I appreciate you understanding the issue, but to say we’re both right is a contradiction in this context.