CBS "Criminal Minds" episode depicts attacker who is part of the manosphere
03-02-2017, 12:25 PMQuote: (03-02-2017 02:21 AM)Delta Wrote:
Quote: (03-02-2017 12:36 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote:
Quote: (03-01-2017 09:39 PM)Delta Wrote:
Episode is airing right now. The attacker pours acid on attractive individuals who are featured on the fictional manosphere website "No Means Yes," a site whose purpose is to post pictures of attractive young people and mock them for being good-looking. Seriously.
Wait....what?
Yeah the whole thing is a rather cartoonish portrayal of the manosphere as a bunch of bitter social rejects who hate everyone that's able to get laid. As I mentioned earlier, it's clearly inspired by Elliot Rodger, who the mainstream has apparently decided is the face of our movement.
Just once can mainstream media portray the manosphere in a remotely balanced way? I'm not even bothered by them saying we're bitter. It's true enough. But you NEVER hear the other side, about how so many men have used the advice written here to improve their lives. I'm one of them. I was a virgin in my 20's when I first stumbled upon the manosphere, and since then, I've banged girls and had girlfriends cuter than those I used to think of as an impossible pipe dream. In a few years, I've gone from feeling totally clueless, powerless, and depressed, to feeling confident and optimistic about life. I'm sure there are thousands out there like me; why can't one of us be the face of the manosphere? Why does one psycho who was barely even associated with the movement get to define us?
At this point, I won't even be surprised if in the near future some police procedural does an episode about diabolical men using the Internet to assemble "pro-rape meetups."
Because everything we write runs contrary to their society-murdering beliefs. In the short term, it's hard to see how a Criminal Minds episode can have a long term effect, but it does. It's one of many seeds being planted by those who control the media.
Fictional media works to elicit an emotional response from the audience. There is a reason they dropped so many manosphere terms: they want to elicit an emotional response that then becomes connected to those words. Now, the next time dried-up Susy reads about a pro-rape group coming to her town--some group from the dreaded "manosphere"--she will feel a stronger emotional response because her mind has already connected the manosphere with psycho-killing and now rape.
The mainstream despises everything we are about. That's why for years, in every movie and TV show you see, the jock is the asshole and the sensitive loser is the salt of the earth (and a lot of times the jock "comes around" and becomes a sensitive little pussy as well as part of his "redemption"). Have you ever been out with people who see a muscular guy and automatically label him a douche even though they've never talked to him? That comes from somewhere, and a lot of it has to do with the tiny seeds being planted all throughout the media, both fictional and non-fictional. Similar-looking guys were total dicks in every movie and TV show they watched, so their minds automatically attached negative feelings towards that person simply because he reminded them of other bad people, even if those bad people weren't real.
It's a battle of the minds, and it's a reason why I believe the manosphere needs to set some of its sights on fictional media. It has a heavy influence on our culture, and right now it's controlled by those who oppose us.