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Why the surprise?

Education is run by women. Women are more group-dependant and more emotional than men. It has been known since antiquity that women rule culture by being the caretakers of tradition, and that women rule society in secret by ruling men in private.

Want to rule society? Learn how to manipulate women as a group, and enough of them will steer or force their men in the desired direction. Advertising used it first, and politics picked it up in the 1960s.

Look at the Witch Panics of old. Women reporting eachother for having truck with the Ole' Foul One was the driving force, while the church's clergymen tried to put an end to it.

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Actual misogyny. Fascinating. The one thing you have right is that politics has devolved entirely into pandering to groups. Two of those groups are men and woman, and the Democrats came up with their marketing slogan of the Republicans “war on women” to gain more female support. And the teachers union is Democrat. It worked well enough that Democrats religiously put on their masks when Trump took his off. If Trump had mandated that kids wear masks, the teachers union would have been up in arms about how it was hurting children’s learning.

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In what way is it misogynistic?

I state, in accordance with known facts about our species, that women are more group-dependant and more emotional - these are facts, not opinion. Whether you think it's bad or not is on you.

Women, being physically weaker and more tied to rearing offspring during our entire history until very recently, have quite naturally become very good at social interaction with an eye to see their will done via influencing the men. Again, if you think that is bad or wrong, that's your opinion. It's simply the way we are.

And of course those who want to influence a group, any group, will pander to the lowest common denominator - there's not time enough for personal interactions with every individual. And the lowest common denominator is how we as a species have functioned for the past several tens of thousands of years - and functioned very well at that.

Nothing in my post is misogynist (look up the actual definition of the word), if anything, it's closer to misandrist as I clearly claim that it is men who are easily manipulated and ruled by the opinions of women.

What is really sad if anything is you reading things into what I wrote that solely exist in your own mind. Oppose what I stated, that's good for debate, but don't try to appear as if I said anything else but what I actually wrote.

In other words, don't be woke.

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With no explanation, you blame the covidian mask fetish on women. The blame seems to be based on some broad generalization about how women are supposed to act based on your understanding of evolutionary biology. I consider forming opinions about groups of people based on broad generalizations to be bad and wrong. To also attribute some negative societal trend on your broad generalization of a group is bigotry. So yes, misogyny is the correct term. Also, feel free to label yourself as misandrist.

More than that, I don’t see any correlation between women being more emotional and group oriented, and a societal shift towards masking and fear. The masking and fear is actively harmful to society. According to your theory, wouldn’t a woman driven society be actively discouraging masking? Instead, you just want to blame something on women because that as your default assumption. Just like your assumption that I don’t agree with you because I am “woke”.

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I mean, anecdotally the largest proportion of folks I still see clinging to masks out and about are women. I'd say at least 75% possibly more. Masking was about cudgeling society through conformity into covering their faces, and women are far more likely to be less confrontational. Rikard is essentially right. Stereotypes exist for a reason - because they are largely true.

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As a woman I think it’s accurate to point out that some women are toxic.

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Eh, misogyny isn't real.

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Yes!

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Even more fascinating, he got 5 likes for his analysis. Sad...

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What's wrong about it then? Don't be sad, use the opportunity to state your own opinion on the matter - how else are you ever going to convince someone that they are wrong?

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He would have gotten 6 likes if Substack had allowed my click on the heart. Don't understand why the limiting up votes (i.e. clicking on the heart).

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