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Misandry is rampant too, which is a big part of why men are checking out or even developing resentment towards women.

This article even touches on it, for example, in that just possessing deep-faked porn is punishable by up to 3 years imprisonment. There are many men who will literally never experience a woman's touch, are shunned, isolated, ridiculed, shamed, and even hated by society. They are not bad people, their only crime is not being attractive. Who are they hurting if they get their rocks off privately fantasising about a woman with the help of AI and image editors? It's downright cruel.






Normal porn is freely available! You don't have to make deepfake porn of your classmate!

How is that "misandry"? Do you think only men are lonely and deprived of sex? Do you think only men fantasize about people they're attracted to? How did men survive so many years without synthetic porn of the woman at the office? Producing deepfakes, even for personal use, is irresponsible. Men can use their imaginations.

How is it not misandry? A law targeting men to deny them even the illusion of love and happiness, punishable by years in prison. A peaceful, albeit distasteful, fleeting solution to their complete rejection by society. I don't see why it's anyone's business, least of all the law. It's cruel. It's spiteful.

How is the law targeting men? As far as I know, it's just as illegal for women to create and possess deepfake porn.

And, again: you do not need deepfake porn to have love and happiness, even an illusion of it. I personally think better of men than to think that a fake nudie pic of the neighbor's wife would be the keystone of their mental wellbeing. If anything is misandry, it's thinking of men as a bunch of sex-crazed gremlins.


What gives you the right to claim that or police that, though?

May I decree that women do not need social media to have love or happiness so it's ok to ban it, under threat of imprisonment if they access it?

Is anything arbitrarily open to prohibition if it doesn't meet your extraordinarily high bar of being the "keystone of mental wellbeing"?

What sick joy do you derive from depriving peaceful lonely desperate men this one small outlet? It's misandry.

All porn disgusts me and yet your cruelty and total lack of empathy is so repugnant that, unbelievably, I'm here batting for coomers. Bravo.


While Men certainly can be (and likely will be) a major driver, don’t underestimate the willingness of women to target other women using the same tactics and techniques if they think they can get away with it.

Men may kill you, but women will make you wish you were dead.


Man comments like this make me a lot more fearful of random men than random women. I've seen so many more vile comments touted by men (I choose to believe the majority of them are bots!) than I've ever seen made by women on regular sites. I don't understand how people become this way.

In this scenario, random women aren’t typically the threat - it’s the women closest to you.

The reason it becomes like this is due to a fight for control, often a pathological one.

Men will make terrible comments and poison the well to try to drive women (and other men) to them for ‘safety’, as a show of force. No one wants to be on the losing/weak side. And by painting all men as scary, they undermine their competition, and by being blatantly the scariest without consequence they show they are the strongest. See what is happening in US politics. Being visibly scary is a form of marketing/recruitment.

Women will make terrible comments and poison the well to stop men (and other women) from leaving because the outside world is too scary, or the alternatives are too scary. No one wants to leave ‘safety’ to get eaten by a monster. And better the devil you know, than the one you don’t eh? Women will often be covertly scary, because their goal is usually retention, not recruitment.

You’re watching the war of control unfold.


Because it is. There is no point trying to solve, or getting depressed about it. Just walk away.

South Korea still has male only slavery in army.

There are facebook groups where female share revenge porn, "are we dating the same guy" or "does this look infected?".


misandry isn't real

the word's main useful purpose is signaling which internet comments are written by specific types of men ;)




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