I created a post that loosely focused on men.

For equality, a post about women would help show that I’m an equal opportunity offender.

Like most social constructs, feminism started in a good place.

Bear with me.
There’s a bit of a history review off the top as a build-up.

It started with the right to vote and suffrage. It branched out in the 1960s. This was probably the generation that saw men in World War II and women in factories, a traditionally male role, and wanted to keep and expand on that.

How a generation perceives their parents’ social situation is what they mature believing is the norm. Women in the workplace aren’t separated from voting, driving, etc. It’s all one package as part of social flow.

Progress isn’t progress without going forward.
However, they’re built on the past.

So, yeah, feminism was, in many cases, justified and needed. As the male role changed, society’s needs altered, and technology advanced, limiting women’s roles to societal norms creates an “other.”

Growth needs change. Change is friction. There will be some disruptions, but overall, I would like to think that future generations will be more solid. More functional, I guess.

Then, we get to the 90s.
These women are built on the friction – the changes – from the 60s. Seperate but equal. MLK. The horrors of Jim Crow. JFK. Voting Act. Fair Housing Act.

The 60s changed dynamically with TV, the birth of computers, space exploration, and the birth control pill.

Building on that past, feminism in the 90s really didn’t have progress to progress. Kinks and abnormalities needed to be ironed out here and there. But there really wasn’t anything to rabble rabble about.

I think that if, at this point, there was an adjustment. Or, rather, adjustment should have occurred – but of course it didn’t.

I’m not too sure what happened – rather it be just society being stupid – Committee of 300 – the shadow mafia –

Feminism started a new cycle, and it was really rather bloody. One would say it caused a lot of cramps.

Major social changes to women are never just about women. Typically, there are changes in slaves, children, or trans people that accompany them. Why can’t there be a movement that’s women-only and women-based? I don’t know.

I suspect that it’s because either people feel that the movement will fail or be suppressed based on its own merits and needs support. Or, being the historical caregivers of society, the other movements are kind of like the backseat driver. When a change occurs, the other movements happen, so they don’t have to go about fighting a separate battle.

Anyway… back on track…

In the 2010s, feminism warped into body positivity, Me Too, Girl Bossing, Mary Sue, 4B movement.

Okay, sure.
Some of these are extensions. Me Too, I think, came from a good place and was soured by the weaponization and misuse.

Girlbossing and Mary Sue probably originated and were highlighted in the media. The media were trying to develop and restructure themselves for an audience for money, of course. That went down shit creek with Star Wars, Marvel, He-Man, and other legacy IPs.

Unfortunately, this also invaded video games. The Last of Us was ruined. Horizon. I know there are others, but I can’t think of them right now.

Again – good place – but too much.

Body positivity doesn’t surprise me, honestly. Again, good place. Women shouldn’t feel the need to be rail-thin.

BUT — and some have pretty big butts – body positivity is a horrible marriage of women in the workforce + growing up on addictive food/marketing (since their moms worked and home cooking started to decline. This also is directly related to the manufactured bliss point and food became products – not food) + feminism. Also, being overweight is a defense against being sexually forced.

Toss in a couple of reality shows, and 600-pound women are on the cover of fashion magazines. Social media amplified this and – wham – there it is.

And there it goes.
Body positivity became a movement about fat – and fat is expensive. Food, medical, social, and loss-of-work equate to being made to suffer. The loss of interaction, mental disability, and death all got dropped like a hot potato when Big Pharma started churning out the GLPs.


4B, I guess, was a thing. I’m pretty sure that it was more popular overseas. But 4B – no sex, no marriage, no dating – no children – I don’t know a lot about this, but it was out there.

The trans movement – boys to girls – girls to boy.
Primarily, boys to girls. Have you noticed? Isn’t it odd that the traditionally dominated gender wants to invade the ‘weaker’ sex? These men are tricked, brainwashed, and lied to. “It’ll be fine,” but it’s not fine. It doesn’t just ruin their lives, but people they may not know.

Um… anyway.. I started writing this a day or two ago and totally lost my choo-choo.

Overall, trying to wrap this up a bit, the past ten or twenty years of feminism haven’t equalized anything. Rather, it has just proven and dug deeper into the differences between men and women.

I’ve seen multiple clips where women complain that men are afraid to approach them in public. (That’s a duh. They’re afraid of being filmed and going viral for something taken out of context.)

Trad-wives feel like the pairing of the liver king. It’s a fad, to be sure, and some influencers are making a lot of money. But someone needs to make the sourdough to go along with the liver, I guess. Trad-wives are kind of a glam-Amish Leave-It-To-Beaver sort.

The woman who divorced their husband out of spite is going viral and begging to be taken back. No, alimony isn’t an automatic, regardless of how much they wish it were.

Women are predominantly liberal/Democrat. Men are conservative/Republican. This is a serious divide that, I think, is fostered and not mentioned enough.

If a man and woman have big political and ideological differences, a union will be difficult or not formed. Someone would have to cave, and that is difficult, if not impossible.

Of course, providing that they meet at all. People tend to spend most of their time and effort, and base their lives on, echo chambers centered on a good dose of FOMO. Since the third space — bars, malls, parties, parks, ect — are stunted and disappearing, finding someone who doesn’t already agree or has a different mindset or belief system is vanishing.

Even if the meeting takes place, the traditional human awkwardness comes in, which was always challenging,

And — even more so, should the union occur — financial, social, and medical difficulties could derail or stop children.

There’s more of a chance of winning with a lottery ticket.

But – I think there’s an aspect that’s being overlooked. It’s contributing to the social and political division. Tinfoil hat — I don’t think this was intentional by the Committee of 300 — but it is becoming a significant factor.

Here:

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 | Pew Research Center

Surveys are not accurate, yes, but this is the non-CIA way to gather information about what people do on their phones and computers.

How media is delivered directly impacts a person neurologically. Depression and loneliness increase. Attention span and critical thinking decrease. Herd mentality, echo chambers, and the fear of friction – inconvenience – become paramount.

I’m a bit on shaky ground here. I actively avoid social media. I’m not on Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, ect — Although I consume a lot of YouTube.

On track — with the well-deserved decline of legacy media — the current state of society is continuing to exacerbate the divide between men and women.

At one point, people watched ABC News together. Things happened. Corruption and competitors rose. Men and women retreated to safe spaces and echo chambers. Those are driven by algorithms and now AI – predictive pricing – predictive marketing – dopamine-fueled addiction — and FOMO. Watching someone unbox stuff they can’t afford became the new Ringling Brothers.

I’m getting off track again… Sorry.

Well, the Pew Research is starting to show a divide in how men and women consume media.

YouTube is the winner, drawing both audiences. But, at this time, YouTube is like Pandora. Just about anything can appear, old, new, how to fix a car, how to sew a button, liberal channels as well as conservative. YouTube Shorts attempts to appeal to the TikTokers.

In this space, it’s the oldest, biggest, mean, and, essentially, legacy media.

But, this isn’t forever.

People under 30 use platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

Here’s the rub.
—— Women are using Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp far more than men.

I don’t know a lot about these. The last real social media I ever used was MySpace. But TikTok, Instagram, and whatever are short-form media.

They are clickbait, short-form media that capture attention, cause initial emotional reaction, and can be seen on multiple devices.

It’s addictive, shortens attention spans, is addictive, and quickly spreads information – normally fake. It encourages consumerism and tends to unrealistic expectations.

Now, with AI increasingly integrated, the current generation of women is just a predictor of what the next generation.

Women aren’t likely to watch the long-form media that men seem to be leaning towards. If it’s not fast, emotional, and exciting, women won’t care. They’ll be the cat chasing the laser.

Women and men naturally see the world in different ways. Biologically, historically, based on nurturing, gender, and expectations.

But there’s always been some sort of bridge – whether it be through tradition, necessity, or need, shared goals and values.

Well, the goals and values are disappearing.

Tradition died a long time ago.

Necessity and need are crumbling because of social programs, the fear of friction, and AI.

Feminism – women- who thrive in community – want equality –

But have lost the thread that being equal is divided by knowing what the boundaries are. Otherwise, we’re just smelly Play-Doh.

The next generation, breastfed on TikTok, and men aren’t going to have any grounding at all. Or very little.

Hopefully, I’m wrong.

I’m just spitballing, of course.

A Big Brain thought.