Angry men on the Internet.

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong post from the GAA but in the responses I see a couple of men, a couple of women, and then some 'non-person' accounts.

Its the 'non-person' accounts that make me cringe. Happy to spew bile on social media but can't put your name over it. Pathetic.

Anger is an equal opportunity employer!

8 replies to the tweet, all negative/abusive.

More sad than angry little men.

There was a study done on men who troll people on a particular video game, I’ll try and find it.

It found that as women and minorities have gained more of a foothold in the business and political worlds, white men of average intelligence and ability feel displaced. In previous generations, even average white guys could expect respectable jobs and a reasonable living but as the competition has increased that hasn’t necessarily been the case.

So they vent their ire online.

And of course, there are women who do this too, but the study related specifically to men I think.

KiKi III wrote: »

There was a study done on men who troll people on a particular video game, I’ll try and find it.

It found that as women and minorities have gained more of a foothold in the business and political worlds, white men of average intelligence and ability feel displaced. In previous generations, even average white guys could expect respectable jobs and a reasonable living but as the competition has increased that hasn’t necessarily been the case.

So they vent their ire online.

And of course, there are women who do this too, but the study related specifically to men I think.

Probably the Call of Duty franchise or similar, I've read about males of all ages being really nasty to women.

Notmything wrote: »

8 replies to the tweet, all negative/abusive.

More sad than angry little men.

That is not true either it is just your own biases simple as.
But if there were not such biases and opinions boards.ie would not function. Lots of mods would be aimlessly trying to fill thier day. As there would be no need for mods because everyone will be agreeing with each other and it would be a mere echo chamber.

KiKi III wrote: »

There was a study done on men who troll people on a particular video game, I’ll try and find it.

It found that as women and minorities have gained more of a foothold in the business and political worlds, white men of average intelligence and ability feel displaced. In previous generations, even average white guys could expect respectable jobs and a reasonable living but as the competition has increased that hasn’t necessarily been the case.

So they vent their ire online.

And of course, there are women who do this too, but the study related specifically to men I think.

Pretty much a meaningless "study" then. I can say with confidence that the outcomes were written first and then the "research" was done later too. It seems every other day there's a new narrative or "study" about men acting wrong about something. All Men Are Bastards....repeat ad nauseum.

I have to laugh at some of this stuff. We'll get these little nuggets from highly politicised academic groups and people will swallow it whole. Every so often then we'll have some sort of trending message about mental health and then how men need to talk or express themselves more, because apparently men hold it all in.....or if they don't it's toxic masculinity. I don't know what it is men but "you're doing it wrong, you're being a man wrong".

Is it any wonder why men might feel alienated or marginalised these days? I feel like on a daily basis there's some sort of reminder that being white, male and straight is akin to being some sort of derisory figure or oppressor or just being a wrong'un. People are sick of this crap and rightly so.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Why are there so many angry men on the Internet, and what are they so angry about?

I visited Twitter this morning and was struck, once again, about how angry and hostile a site it is. A case in point is this harmless retweet by Simon Harris.

https://twitter.com/officialgaa/status/1268165151783563264

You'd also see it here. Men lashing out at RTÉ presenters, female comedians, Greta Thunberg, social media influencers, poor people, rich people etc etc.

Where is all this anger coming from? Are they not getting the ride or something? Or is the internet itself making them angry?

Simon Harris and most of FG are always targets for negative tweets because people don't like them, I assume people think it's a form of holding them to account (I doubt they react to anything), and finally because of the state in which they left their briefs. Simon for example and FG have essentially abandoned special needs healthcare over the past ten years (not saying it's right i just see it each time they post.)

The other side of it then that both men and women get caught up in online echo chambers that reenforce this kind of toxic response for likes amongst their own cohort. I seen a study a year or so back which showed the bubbles that people on social media put themselves into and only engage with other perspectives attacking.

So yah there are allot of angry and toxic people on the internet allot happen to be men but it's not limited to them.

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I don't really buy that. The shift is generational. If the shift happened suddenly, then these men were out of a job, I could see why they're mad. But if the shift happens slowly, they wouldn't know what they're missing.

Yeah but they can see the older generations where average guys had better prospects.

It must be more than simple competition. Workers rights have been eroded too. Back in the day the average guy had job security and wage growth. Now there are zero hour contracts and the gig economy (being an employee without holiday or sick pay) increased competition from women and automation.

I always remner Bill O'Reily on fox news doing a bit about how much better the old days were. He talked about how his grand/father was a janitor in one place all his life and he bought a house and raised his family on that one wage. But then whenever discussing the topic of increasing the wages for low paid workers, he would always oppose it completely.

Maybe back in the good old days wages for the low paid and unskilled were enough to raise a family in that time. But they're not enough anymore. That might contribute to the general risen in anger.