• Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    You can use real scenarios as fear porn by hyper focusing on them, far beyond what’s reasonable, and to the exclusion of everything else.

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      8 months ago

      You’re treading a fine line with that logic claiming that news like this is designed to neg women into being constantly afraid.

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        8 months ago

        If making people aware of dangerous situations is a good thing, then being aware of how media can be used maliciously is also a good lesson.

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          8 months ago

          Sure. But painting women as completely beholden to the news to the point that they’re negged into paranoia and abusive relationships is blatantly over representing the problem.

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            But painting women as completely beholden to the news to the point that they’re negged into paranoia and abusive relationships

            I would say it’s people in general. Women just happen to be the targets of this particular manipulation. But all people are extremely susceptible to manipulation.

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              or is it intended to constantly neg you to the point you become a hollow shell of a woman, overly eager to please others out of fear for hypotheticals, no longer capable of recognizing good in others so you’ll settle for the abusive relationships you’ve been conditioned to expect?

              I’m using your words, in your phrasing. If I’m misrepresenting what you said, then you might want to reexamine what you said.

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                8 months ago

                You should read it more carefully. I’m speaking about the motives of those who spread fear porn, not the aptitude of women as a whole.

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                  8 months ago

                  Ok, and claiming that news pertaining to the rape and murder of women by men who were spurned is manipulative is better in what way?

                  Painting news organizations as having the overall goal of negging women into paranoia and abusive relationships doesn’t even make sense. If anything, their goal would be clicks, not sewing chaos in that way.

                  And anyway, insinuating that the problem in the original post is the news fear mongering to condition women, and not the pervasive problem of violent men assaulting women, is itself insulting to women. Which is the point I was originally making.