"The Trump campaign knew that men were his ticket back to power, and it targeted them—pointedly young men, and men of color—with a sophisticated campaign of grievance and disinformation.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@yappari Sad, for sure, that this is happening.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@HeliosPi Thank you for these links. I look forward to reading.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@wdlindsy it is, and was always bubbling under the surface. When I was younger in the 1990s the only reason it wasn't as prevalent is young men were allowed a lot more hedonism (drugs, partying etc), the right wing also clamped down on this which had the effect they had a lot of bitter strung out lads they could recruit from..

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@vfrmedia Good historical perspective on how things are shifting in this area.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@wdlindsy I was a rave organiser, pirate radio engineer and DJ during the "good times" and have literally seen it happen with people in my circle of friends. Even though the rave scene was very multicultural and LGBT+ inclusive, it still wasn't enough to stop the "bro" culture slowly taking over and a lot of men falling down the alt-right rabbithole as the drugs clampdowns started from mid 2000s onwards

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@vfrmedia Interesting — you're giving me a glimpse of a culture from which I've been totally separated, was totally separated during those years. Thanks for the glimpse.

[bronakins@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

As a whole we are such a backwards country.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@wdlindsy to be fair the rave scene took longer to reach some areas of the USA (even though parts of it originated from America) and was actively suppressed in many regions. From your toots elsewhere I can see that whilst the religious right was mostly a laughing stock in Britain by 1980s/90s, and Thatcho was concentrating more on short term neoliberal gains than social conservatism (so a lot got under the radar here!) the religious lot still had much more clout and power in America..

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@vfrmedia I myself was also really far from being in any cultural sphere where I'd have been influenced by that scene, so even if it was around (and I think it was in some big cities), it didn't touch on my life in any way. You're right about the different effects of religious ideology in the US, and that probably does account for a lot of my own isolation from these cultural currents.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@bronakins We are, indeed. Our misogynistic attitudes place us on a par with fundamentalist Islamic countries and with Russia.

[lolicanthe@eldritch.cafe]

@wdlindsy Brilliant!
Thank you so much!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Lolicanthe That site is so useful. I wish I could remember the Mastodon user who first told me about it, so that I could thank him (I do remember that it was a male, but not the name).