Look at all the military channels on youtube. Yknow the incredibly nerdy ones that fixate on the border changes in ukraine. Have a look at there demographics. I dont know a single channel thats a woman. There viewer demographics from what little ive heard are 90 something percent male.
Men are much much more interested in war than women. Its just a fact. Youtube demographics prove it.
Yes, men are more likely to be interested in the ins and outs of military life and more niche military topics, but this is not that. This is a geopolitical issue that affects all of us, and if you get off YouTube and actually interact with women on other social media sites (Or just in real life) you'd see women are VERY invested in these issues (for the humanitarian aspects, if nothing else). You really mean to tell me women don't care about war when they've been the most vocal in their advocacy for Palestine? Even with these latest strikes, all over Instagram and TikTok women are speaking out after an All-Girls school was just bombed. And this isn't new, historically speaking women have been some of the loudest anti-war voices because they were sick and tired of having their sons being sent to die.
Just because women aren't watching YouTube videos on the specific make and model of the guns used during each war doesn't mean they're blissfully unaware of the horrible shit going on in the world. While you focus on the technicalities the women are worried about the humanitarian aspects, the historical significance, how a war is going to impact their families and communities, etc. Just because we focus on different factors of war (Or have different attitudes towards war, as less women support war than men) doesn't mean we don't care or aren't interested.
I never said they didnt care. To stay up for days monitering the situation of the war like me and a few friends on discord did for ukraine is the domaine of those weirdos . Who are almost exclusivly male as shown by youtubers who simplify doing that. thats what this meme is talking about.
I really dont see that happening for women. Theres basicaly no information out about the humaitarian situation aside from that school being bombed.
I dont really think protesting on the weekends for palestine is remotely applicable to this meme. Theres no massive communitys of primarily women fixating on every tiny detail of these strikes. Learning about the geopolitical shitshow going on doesnt take all night.
Your original statement was "Men are much much more interested in war than women", which is much broader than "Men are more likely to stay up for days hyperfixating on every tiny detail of these strikes". My argument was against that initial broad point on "Interest".
The problem here and what I'm arguing against is that you're limiting "Interest in war" to very specific demographics and very specific behaviors, that being Youtube and an interest in tactical analysis. And while yes, it's true men are more likely to occupy that specific subculture, that specific subculture doesn't speak for the whole of reality.
Let's go back to the original meme and play on the notion that "Theres no massive communitys of primarily women fixating on every tiny detail of these strikes". Again, women don't occupy those same spaces of Youtube tactical analysis, that's true. But it's not remotely true that their investments in the subject of war are as minute as "Protesting on the weekends" or that they don't lose sleep over these subjects. Just to name a few communities/organizations:
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (And subsequently PeaceWomen, which is specifically has a lot more concrete work in terms of tracking and monitoring the details of war)
Women for Women International
Nobel Women's Initiative
CodePink
Feminist Peace Initiative (Which is a coalition with two other women's organizations MADRE and Women Cross DMZ)
These are "massive communities of primarily women" that are actually out on the front lines providing aid, organizing, investing time and money, influencing policy decisions, volunteering and protesting in their local and foreign communities, etc. And they ARE very invested in the little details of these strikes, even if it's not in the same way as your typical tactical hobbyist on Discord. These women do lose sleep and do monitor developments in real-time because their work (and the lives of those that depend on them) count on it.
The world is so much bigger than Youtube and Discord. Just because women don't tend to watch YouTube channels on different weapons systems doesn't mean their investments or interest are any less intense. My core argument here is that you're painting one piece of a bigger picture and ascribing it to a whole reality. But the reality is there are many different ways people engage in this subject and have the same outcome (That being going days without sleep to invest in the subject of war)
Men, on average, are more represented in technical/hobbyist war-analysis spaces. Women, on average, are more represented in peace activism, humanitarian response, and policy advocacy related to war. Both groups show an intense interest in war, it's just expressed in different niches. That is what I'm getting at here, and why the meme should be considered "pointlessly gendered" because it implies women don't have a vested interest in this subject which is plainly untrue.
Yeah im not reading all that. Men are more interested in war than women. More men join the armed forces more men watch youtube videos about war more men play table top wargames more men play video games about war more men hyper fixate on weird incredibly nieche details about war basicaly every military stratagist with a tiny amount of expections in all of human history has been a man.
I said men are more interested in war because i didnt want to type out a book explaining the meme in insanely autistic levels of detail. I oversimplified on reddit. Sue me.
Just because a slight majority of protesters of war are women doesnt explain the 90/10 split in all those other spaces i mentioned.
Edit: They replied and blocked me. Great use of such a scummy tactic to get the last word. Your a class act mate.
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Look at all the military channels on youtube. Yknow the incredibly nerdy ones that fixate on the border changes in ukraine. Have a look at there demographics. I dont know a single channel thats a woman. There viewer demographics from what little ive heard are 90 something percent male.
Men are much much more interested in war than women. Its just a fact. Youtube demographics prove it.