Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report

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1. What’s the point of this inflammatory headline?

   Aren’t you tired of artificially keeping this population in a perpetual hyper-vigilant and demoralised state ?

   It has real life health consequences.

   When will it end ?

2. Soo according to the government if you can’t get laid you are in an extremist ideology

   They used the full term for incel

3. I wonder if we have any examples we can point to, say in the Middle East, wherein polygamous societies breed anger, misogyny, and violence in the “have not” groups. Simply labelling them as dangerous terrorists will not do a damn thing. We need solutions. And i don’t see one except a “get better” messaging to men.

4. I don’t see any “misogynist extremists” driving cars into crowds full of people at christmas

5. The UK’s largest minority population follows extremely patriarchal rules including: women (from their first menstrual period) have an _obligation_ to be dressed “modestly” as otherwise they will be sinful and lustful and it will be their fault if men harass them (_and_ there’s a trend of [very young girls being made to cover up for primary school](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06584py)) + that on their menstrual period they can’t touch their holy book because they are considered impure + believe that women have a duty to obey their husbands + women are prohibited from marrying outside the religion (but of course men are allowed to marry anyone)…

   But this report focuses on Hindus and the “manosphere”? How spineless can you get when you’re ignoring the 🐘 in the room

6. > **The report, which was leaked to the right-leaning thinktank Policy Exchange,** comes amid deepening scrutiny of the government’s approach to extremism. On Sunday, it emerged that counter-terrorism officers did not believe the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was “in danger of being radicalised”.

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   > **Paul Stott and Andrew Gilligan, the authors of the report**, said: “Many of these supposed other extremisms simply do not meet the test of harming national security or safety. Government should certainly be alarmed by, and should tackle, violence against women and other social harms – but they do not constitute extremism as defined up till now.

   Okay am I just tired or is this a terribly written article?

   Paul Stott and Andrew Gilligan work for Policy Exchange, they have released a critical report of the ‘Rapid Analytical Sprint’ that has been leaked to them.

   Is it just me or does the article confuse this?

7. So in a report about the summer riots, where the Far Right and then Muslims were responsible for the disorder, Hindus have somehow been dragged into this report, and Islam yet again gets a free pass…

8. You tell boys and adolescents that they’re automatically nasty little misogynists and you’re surprised they say “Fuck it, if the world is going to assume that anyway I might as well be,”?

   This culture of ascribing the new “original sins” of maleness, whiteness, misogyny to children has got stop. It is either self-fulfilling or emasculating and neither is good.

9. I don’t see the link between misogyny and extremism myself. We use both those words far too liberally in my opinion.

   I think there IS a connection between male romantic failure and social and romantic isolation, which comes with associated frustrations, and violence, but it’s twisting the truth to label that ‘misogyny’. Most Isla Vista/school shooting types share common traits of (perceived) social and romantic failure, a sense of hopelessness about changing their situations through conventional means (working hard, getting a good job etc.), a toxic mix of autism and narcissism and mad expectations/entitlements regarding what they’re owed in life.

   Even when they say it’s about women, it rarely is. It’s about the status that women give access to.

   Joseph Conrad was closer to the truth when he wrote the terrorist has two essential traits: narcissism and sloth.

10. Keeping in mind we have a generation of young men who have fallen right behind in education, who don’t have strong male role models in the home or at school, who are less likely to go to university, who are constantly demonised in the media, who are looked down upon, denigrated, and have so far been lacking the attention that other groups are given, how are we going to help them achieve their potential?

    Oh that’s right, we’re going to call them misogynists and extremists. That should solve the issue /s.

11. How is misogyny itself a “breeding ground”? That’s like saying racism is a breeding ground for mean-ness. Like, I agree with the general sentiment but those words aren’t being used properly.

12. As someone who went to the Duke of Wellington in Soho, I was surprised by the intensity of blatant misogyny many guys have there. There is some form of mental health issue in this country.

13. Online misogyny has put me off men for good, because I know that’s who they really are, and they’re a majority. Men can seem decent irl but be misogynistic online. I’m 30 and have never had a boyfriend and I never will because I’m not giving them a chance after what I’ve seen.

14. Oh for fucks sake, not the “non-crime hate incident” nonsense again.

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