An Australian study of anti-feminist attitudes shows up to 30% of boys surveyed expressed agreement with various forms of violent extremism.

Support for violence to resist feminism was highest among adolescent boys (28%), followed closely by adolescent girls (21%).

Perhaps most alarming: roughly 40% of boys aged 13 to 17 agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.

These results raise crucial questions going forward. We don’t yet know how these views have changed over time, whether they are on the rise and what the links are between violent extremism and the negative treatment of women.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I can answer part of this:

    Are we only looking at formal complaints or are we including accusations that are only spread socially?

    All of these types of studies only look at formal complaints, which in a way makes sense because they’re the only ones that are even close to verifiable, and I have no idea how you’d reliably collect info on social-only accusations, good luck! But it does paint an incomplete picture.