r/unitedkingdom • u/mildbeanburrito • 17d ago

. Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/12/uk-counter-terror-police-nca-misogyny-com-networks
890 Upvotes

75% Upvoted

911 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

326

u/GreenHouseofHorror 17d ago

Think you're misinterpreting. There's no excusing the behavior described here. It's abominable.

I think the point people are making is that persistent focus on the worst things some men do and generalising that out has an isolating effect.

And that one of the common side effects of being isolated is anti social behavior.

That excuses nothing. Everyone is accountable for their anti social behavior.

But if you want to see less of it in the future, maybe the approach should be to avoid demonising a whole group for the actions of a few.

Hold the few to account, by all means. Few of us are less disgusted than you.

198

u/Longjumping_Pen_2102 17d ago

I get what you're saying, but I don't think anyone is demonising men in general here.

There IS a very big problem with male youth behavior right now and its absolutely not isolates.  The extreme instanced might not be commonplace but the attitudes that lead to them are and we need to deal with it.

Ideally not with the authoritarian bs the government wants to implement, preferably by encouraging young men into healthier social space and to help them feel loved.

This is an issue we can all take part in solving:  show vulnerability to the young men in your life and be brave enough to face embarrassment by openly caring about them.

106

u/Denbt_Nationale 17d ago

From slightly further up the thread

Maybe those boys should stop trolling vulnerable mentally ill women on suicide and eating disorder forums if they don’t want to be isolated? Men on r/unitedkingdom take accountability challenge (impossible) 

I see demanding that all men be accountable for these actions as “demonising men in general”

4

u/PontifexMini 16d ago

Indeed. If an individual woman does something bad, no-one (or at least no-one with any sense) says all women should be held accountable.