I love when they throw the statistics of that stuff in. Fuentes post was viewed 90 million times. How many of those views do you think were from outraged women directed to the post by other outraged women? And if you are a Russian or Chinese bot farm looking to cause the most chaos in the US, what better way to do that than pushing a gender war between men and women. Women saying 4b (and there is some pretty heinous stuff said in the comments of that, check out women's aligned sites on Reddit right now...) and men spouting back with rapey language. We have some schools saying kids were doing it and those are the "real world" examples. I could just as easily say that the histrionic reaction from movements like 4B already claimed a body after the election (the woman who killed her father).
Finally, a term increasing 4600 percent in one week could be one person saying it and 46 people talking about it. 90% of that discussion could be saying, "Can you believe this idiot" and they would all still be counted as a rise on the phrase being used and they would also be a drop in the vast bucket of the online world.
Articles like the CNN one want this to be a thing so they continue to amplify it. Taking and turning the parties into men vs. women is the ****ing stupidest idea on the planet.
I, too, found that weird--as in a 4600% increase on a base 1 is how relevant? But I do find it potentially useful to track that stuff. I had no idea there were organizations out there that did that. I didn't post the article for that, though; I posted it for evidence of a report that this is happening in the real world, not just online. And it wasn't just school kids saying that--it was teachers and school administrator, wasn't it?
Re 4B, I have mocked it and think it is ridiculous histrionics, like you say. But there is ZERO moral equivalence between women saying they aren't going to have sex with men anymore and "rapey language." None.
I guess at this point, I'm not sure why we can't have broad agreement that things like this are wrong. Kinda like the Palestinian protestors targeting Jews and blocking them from class or blocking roads. Did it happen so much that it was really an issue of national importance? No, it was rare and limited pretty much to big cities or the odd college campus. But if it happens once, that's too much, and that atmosphere was enabled by those on the left and is troublesome on its own. And you had real leaders, like John Fetterman, standing up and speaking out against it--even though he didn't have any "equity" or responsibility for the conduct. That's what leaders do. They speak out and they stand up even to people who are in their tribe.
Anyway, maybe I shouldn't have linked this conduct--which my neighbor is really, really concerned about (he has two daughters)--and the concept of Republican overreach and overconfidence. But I find them of a piece--the crowing and football spiking seems to be a bit excessive right now among Trump supporters, and I think that kind of thing enables stuff like this. And if there is no blowback for it from the leaders on the right? Well, that clearly enables it.