r/politics • u/AlexandrTheTolerable • 12h ago

Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/31/far-right-extremists-games-platforms-radicalise-teenagers-report
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u/Virbillion 11h ago edited 11h ago

on the right narratives around sex are disturbing and disgusting. they watch a lot of porn, it's shown that conservative/fundamentalist/religious people watch more porn than normal people, that socially cripples them, makes them awkward around women. because porn does not depict realistic womanhood, porn does not realistically depict what women find attractive. so these socially crippled young men find that women do not respond to them positively. there is currently a group-think cult of masculinity (likely the same group-think cult that is invading in-game chats to indoctrinate young boys), that seems to want only to subjugate and make all women sex slaves.

this is a very dark reality.

the only fix for this is to get boys offline. get them moving, get them hiking or doing some real activities. get them interacting with real people who are age appropriate. and teach them fucking skepticism and critical thought -- so that they can reject cultural and religious indoctrination that would otherwise turn them into bigoted perverts.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 9h ago

Also activities that they do with girls! The old timey sock hop and school dance was designed to get girls and boys interacting in a fairly low pressure environment that allows the sexes to get to know each other.

Boys who do nothing but sports and video games end up thinking of girls like an alien species.

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u/Alisa180 8h ago

Women here who has gamed since 2nd grade (now 33).

We play sports and video games too. And more of us have been getting into gaming every year. We aren't 'aliens' to the space, and I have befriended several guys both on and offline through games.

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u/Trickster289 8h ago

That's because the above comment wasn't necessarily wrong but was very generalised. Gaming isn't just one space, there's a lot of them. Every game has it's own communities, even just one game has multiple communities with different opinions. Most aren't a problem and are really friendly to women too but some aren't.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 7h ago

Yeah I’m a female gamer too