I would figure maybe this was caused in part by conservative Catholic anti-sex brainworms and young guys feeling ownership of women their age and jealous that their classmates are dating older guys instead of being their Catholic trad wife. Hook up with a guy a few years older and we’ll lynch his ass? That’s the message.

I mean, c'mon here. The people who have been yelling about "age gaps" for the last 4+ years have not been Conservative Catholics & Incels. This is 100% a "cultural-left", radlib phenomenon.

[+] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know of a not-insignificant portion of young misogynistic guys who are angry at women their age for dating older guys instead of them. They were around even when I was the age of the guys in this article and that was a while ago. I always felt like that fed into a lot of guys buying into the Alpha Male discourse that come around later. Probably related to incels too, but not sure which came first.

I do not deny that there are lots of men who get mad about women dating other men, for lots of reasons. My issue here is with the unevidenced assertion (we don't have the original article here) that this assault specifically is being driven primarily by that specific specie of brainworms. People like to ascribe every bad thing that happens only to their opponents, and never to flaws in their own house.

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If they wanted to get back at women for dating older men, they would've just assaulted a woman; rather than picking a fight with a male soldier who, even they would imagine, could presumably fight back.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You miss that whole pizzagate / q Anon thing or what

[–] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You mean the conspiracy theory that

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"Washington D.C. Lizardmen are trafficking elementary-age minors using a Pizza Restaurant as a front organization"?

Yes, I'm aware of that. It's also an obviously unrelated form of brainworm to what's going on here.