Alright, I know I've done a lot of low-effort trolling in this thread, but, genuinely, god damn the majority of U.S. women are insufferable: it's a rarity for me to find one who doesn't base much of her literature recommendations, purchasing habits, and conversation topics around what she just saw on TikTok (or Instagram, or Facebook, or...).
Worse still, all social media addicted women I know seem at ease while essentially admitting they are subservient to influencers, algorithms, and the [current thing], whereas - outside of anonymous forums - I don't know a single man who'd willingly, no less casually, let it be known that they simped for Vtubers or (para)socially cared about whatever the fuck Asmongold/Andrew Tate/Null thinks.
Is this the "women are wonderful" effect, where men will get shamed for shit that women won't be? Is it from innate differences in attitude, with fewer men willing to be (or willing to admit to being) so puppeteered by cynical influences? Probably some combination of those and more I haven't thought up yet.
I suppose one rejoinder is that more men will waste their money and lives in P2W gacha/skinner box games than women, and so in some sense we're just prey to different forces, but the point still stands that I don't know a single (IRL) man who would casually, eagerly admit to being wrapped around the thumb of a game publisher either: no man I know is gleefully showing off their gacha pulls or bragging about spending a quarter of their waking lives in World of Warcraft, because that extreme of maladaptive, servile fascination is rightfully seen as embarassing and shameful.
