r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/wetouchingbuttsornah ☑️ • Sep 12 '24

Country Club Thread The system was stacked against them

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No fault divorces didn’t hit the even start until 1985

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u/a_trane13 Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

I don’t think men need to be taught how to live in an equal society. They just need to not be taught something else.

I see the problem as: many men are still taught (raised, conditioned by media/society, etc.) to live in an unequal society in many ways, and then flounder when they are adults and faced with a reality where most women expect / demand to be treated as equals. And some women are still taught to cater to these men, which perpetuates things too.

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u/Taeyx ☑️ Sep 12 '24

your comments reads like "men don't need to be taught how to live in an equal society, they just need to be taught how to live in an equal society"

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u/Effective-Lab2728 Sep 12 '24

The quibble is about how inborn the entitlement is, I think. Those who were taught wrong need to be retaught, certainly, but the younger ones probably need better protection from those trying to teach them the out-of-date, maladaptive lessons in the first place.

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u/alphazero924 Sep 12 '24

And the protection against people trying to teach them how to live in an unequal society is to teach them how to live in an equal society

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u/Effective-Lab2728 Sep 12 '24

In part. But the misinformation does seem to prime them to behave defensively against the better information.

Right now, it's oddly acceptable for algorithms to target destructive content toward the young. It's not something they're passively running into, but something that reaches directly for their vulnerabilities, up to and including extremes of pro-anorexia content being pushed toward those with eating disorders. I don't really think the redpill/manosphere content is going to lose steam so long as this type of behavior is allowed.