Learning to hate women.

It appears that many young men believe that the move towards gender equality has been excessive. And there are claims that social media is a powerful influence in promoting hatred of women. If this is true, what are the dangers, particularly in the struggle to reduce domestic violence?

What is influencing young men’s negative attitudes to women? Source: Image by garryknight/creative commons

Kate Walton is a writer and activist and Iwan Awaluddin Yusuf, is a lecturer in the Communications Department at the Indonesian Islamic University in Yogyakarta and a PhD student at Monash University with a strong interest in media and gender.  They discuss the dimensions of e problem. Is it merely a matter of the influence of social media blame?

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Australian women are fighting for equal rights and to end domestic and sexual violence, it seems many young men think they already have it too good. Source: Image by Sam Mooy/Getty 15 Mar 202i.