Twenty years from now, there'll be a sudden increase in teenage boys beating the shit out of teenage girls at schools.
This will be due to fifty years of movies and TV shows depicting men and women fighting each other as equals.
Both genders will think it's acceptable.
Until the girls start rolling into the hospitals.
There are already men claiming to be women who are beating women in women's sports, and even feminists think it's acceptable.
shareFeeling scared, are ya?
shareOf a world where violence towards women is normalised? Yes.
Join me, won't you?
Lol. Stop it, man. It's just entertainment.
shareRight?
And you're aware that decades of entertainment influences culture.
What's confusing you?
It's the other way around.
As for your original point, beating up anyone (unless in self-defense) is wrong.
Hopefully parents won't become so useless as to neglect teaching their children that simple fact.
Ah, so it's the widespread culture of men and women fighting as equals that has influenced its increasing prevalence in entertainment. Makes sense.
shareThat's what conservatives been saying about Hollywood since the pre-Hay's Code years. Do you know what I'm talking about?
shareIf you're a lefty, you presumably accept the existence of toxic masculinity.
The idea of which relies upon the narrative that people (in this case men) can be influenced by cultural norms.
Why would decades of normalising men and women fighting not result in a similar influence?
And because kids care less and less about history as time goes on, they won't even learn from the older generations to keep the beating of women behind closed doors at home, and how to hit them so they don't bruise.
shareI had a professor who was a feminist scholar. I was most impressed by one variety of feminism she described, which considered violence and warfare to be primitive male ways of dealing with problems, and that women should be above such savagery instead of participating in it. I always felt that all these recent action movies undermine such ideals.
Yes, it's an irony.
Toxic masculinity is bad. Unless women are engaging in it.