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Eli Squires's avatar

I'm definitely not a zoomer (50 next year), so don't have that perspective, except watching my teenage daughters navigate the new world. The past few decades did have a, "men are bad/masculinity is bad" theme that was tiresome, and effective at building anger among us men. I tend to think that this message pushed men towards porn and away from women (although it didn't take much pushing). My daughters (16 and 17) only got phones this year, and are still quite limited in the online sphere (no dating apps), but don't seem to have a problem meeting and socializing with boys. Maybe the more online a person is, the worse the dating arena is?

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chico's avatar

As a feminist activist from the 60s, I feel this is a giant problem. I don't think it's relegated to Gen Z. I see it in my generation, the ninth decade. Not sure how this developed, but can't be put in one or the other side. No white hats. I was struck by Freya's thinking that the divisiveness we are experiencing in general has pulled relationships between the sexes into it. Like general distrust based in our politics is a black hole pulling everything into it.

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