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This was also in your reply: > Therapists can give you tools and strategies to avoid watching social media videos. Suggestion of therapy is widely misused the
by goku12 1y ago
This was also in your reply:
> Therapists can give you tools and strategies to avoid watching social media videos.
Suggestion of therapy is widely misused these days to deflect attention and accountability from the fundamental issue - sexist rhetoric, misandry especially.
> What I said was: You can choose not to watch the videos. Social media is optional.
Social media is not optional in practice. It won't stop affecting you just because you abandon it. Others in your circle are influenced by them. The rhetoric is already instigating incidence of DV, assaults, false accusations and public humiliation. It's no longer just 'annoying'. Inaction, passive measures and shifting the responsibility on to potential victims (like therapy) are not going to cut it anymore.
The minimum remedy is a mass campaign that treats them like propaganda inciting violence. Those responsible for it must be called out and held accountable (somehow, this is non-controversial when it's about misogyny). Moral-shaming ad campaigns must be expanded to cover all forms of sexism (consistency and integrity aren't exactly their forte). But I doubt even that will stop it. Many corporate, mainstream media, international institutions and governments actively promote it. They wont abandon the malevolence without massive repercussions.
> Women should also log off. Parents need to moderate kids access to social media also.
While I agree, that ship has sailed long ago, I'm afraid. Social media has invaded the foundations of real-life social networks. Network effects and peer pressure make it nearly impossible to dislodge it from there. A lot of innocent lives will be ruined or lost if you wait for that to happen - if ever.