I am going to preface all of this by saying that I am a bit assmad about the situation.
I found this viral video that’s been going around of some dude interviewing a couple about a Hall Pass. The girl excitedly says that she’d do it, the guy looks confused. That’s fine, funny even…until you scroll down. Pretty much all the replies are that she’s a wh’re, he should leave her, calling the guy a c’ck, some people acting like she should be publicly shamed or stoned for daring to answer the question she was asked. Like no action was committed this is all part of an interview.
When I saw this I was really disgusted and kinda shocked by how strong the blowback was. But then it hit me: There is nothing that unites a bunch of asshole men quite like “woman bad.” Even a woman talking about her sex life labels her as a harlot that no one should even associate with. Meanwhile the dude that asked the question doesn’t get a second look because there’s a woman being uppity or something.
Also see: the gleeful unfolding of the heard trial and unhinged memes that came because she was crying wrong. Large swathes of the internet are an echo chamber for misogyny.
On reddit there was a front page post of a guy’s screenshots where the girl admitted to making up abuse and he was like I just want to see my kid and it was so obviously photoshopped but everybody was lapping it up and saying girls are crazy.
Reddit is ironically misinformation central, considering you can get thousands of people to shower you with love and attention over something clearly fake.