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Can we put women on pause until we figure out wtf is going on?
BAN WOMEN FROM USING THE INTERNET
The latest ISIS-inspired attack the feds foiled was intended to blow up the New York statehouse in Albany and was perpetrated by a dopey looking white woman who had converted to Islam five years ago.
I recently said to my wife that nothing annoys me more than seeing a dopey white woman in hijab. It leads to all sorts of assumptions on my part. Firstly, that they’re dopey, but secondly that they’re acutely susceptible to suggestion.
Jessica Bowie went “from a little girl waving an American flag after 9/11 to now having stickers of the falling towers,” she’d told a confidential informant prior to getting busted. Bowie was radicalized in part due to profuse social media use. At first it was just statements in support of jihad, but a few months ago it turned operational when she started seeking coaching on bomb materials.
The internet driving otherwise well meaning left-wing women (Bowie was registered Democrat for years until registering as an independent) nuts is not a new story. Going direct action isn’t even unique either. I’m not entirely sure Renée Good ever uses her car to interdict ICE agents if not for being a member of various social media groups.
Some years ago, there was much ado about incels and radicalization of men on the internet. It has also produced at least a handful of deadly lunatics. Eventually it evolved into the so-called “manosphere,” a decidedly more benign iteration if you ask me (except for some notion that it got Trump elected again).
The striking difference between the two is how widespread one is versus the other. 4Chan, incels, discord boards, they’re all still relatively on the fringe. TikTok, Instagram, they are decidedly not fringe, especially among the liberal female cohort.
Jonathan Haidt’s “Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First And Fastest” highlights how “liberal girls” dwell on social media at a rate almost 3x as high as conservative boys (who were the lowest cohort) and 1.5x as high as conservative girls:
Social media overuse does not only correlate with radicalization and eventual extraordinary acts of feminine violence like Renée Good ramming an ICE agent or Bowie trying to blow up (mostly Democrat) politicians in New York. (Not to mention the thousands of smaller acts of violence, like attacking pro-life activists or hurling their bodies in front of federal vehicles.)
The deranged, doomscrolling also explains lesser, though no less concerning, trends like enraged mommies throwing ice cubes into bathtubs because they’re mad at their kids.
Think of the pathology required to do such a thing. You put your kids in front of a cartoon maybe or pen them up in the living room. Then you set up a tripod in the bathroom and film yourself crying and throwing ice cubes.
It’s freakish and more than slightly terrifying.
I’m convinced this internet psychosis is the same thing that’s led so many women to dress in pink and show up to Lindsay Clancy’s trial.
Unlike the “toxic” masculinity that drove once-anonymous incels into acts of violence, this psychopathy is both comprehensive and far-reaching. There are tens of thousands of these women donating to Clancy’s defense fund.
Check out the legit professor of psychology who (allegedly!) threw down a couple gees for Clancy.
The woman is supposed to be a licensed clinical psychologist and professor!
Incidentally, you know who prescribed most of the medication that (allegedly!) drove Clancy out her own window? Other women!
(Except for one guy named Dr. Kayvon Idzadpanah. You think that guy rolls out a carpet five times a day or nah?)
The kicker is that this is the exact same voting bloc that’s driving foreign (often Muslim) communists into office.
So what do we do about it? Can we simply shut off the internet for women? Ban them from TikTok forever?
This is obviously hyperbole. My wife and sister are close and at least once a holiday, as they’re ganging up on me, I’m good to say something to the effect of, “we never should have taught your kind to read.” It’s chauvinistic, yes, but also kind of funny.
The truth is I don’t really know what to do. Even if you age-restricted social media, that wouldn’t stem the tide of mentally unwell adult women turning their brains to mush on Instagram.
As usual, I think the conservative impulse to find a silver bullet is actually pretty useless. There is no Internet ban and there is no silver bullet. The only answer is real life community, real life relationships. In other words, replace the cesspool community with the healthy community. That’s what would restore mental health in not just women, but men too.
That’s also going to take hard work from both men and women. Otherwise, get used to the mental illness.
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