Streamer Braden Peters, known more commonly as Clavicular, was arrested in Florida on a misdemeanor battery charge on Friday.
This incident is not the first time he has been in the news. He has recently received much media attention for his status as an influencer who has admitted to quite extreme methods for trying to maximize his attractiveness, such as taking meth to suppress his appetite and repeatedly hitting his face with a hammer to try to induce some facial bones to grow larger.
The fact that he, a male fitness and beauty influencer, has gained such traction reveals how men’s issues are often taken more seriously than women’s issues.
According to the BBC, the “looksmaxxing” community, of which Clavicular is a part, has been criticized for promoting body dysmorphia, eating disorders and self-objectification in young men. These are issues that have more traditionally been seen as issues more commonly affecting young women.
Now that these issues have come to affect young men, we have a flurry of media coverage about it. Internet content has afflicted women with these same problems for much longer and on a much larger scale, the reactions feel disproportionate; problems are taken more seriously and given more attention when they affect men. According to the Global Media Monitoring Project, women account for only 26% of news subjects, despite women making up about half of the world’s population.
I do not wish to argue about whether either men’s or women’s problems are worse or that one gender has it worse off. But both men and women have problems that are worthy of being solved.
Much about the looksmaxxing community has roots in the incel community; the “-maxx” suffix originated as incel slang. Like Clavicular and looksmaxxing, incels have gotten a large amount of media coverage in recent times. But underreported is the female counterpart to incels: “femcels.”
The differences between femcels and male incels are more than just gender. Femcel communities commonly have people with the same insecurities as male incels, such as feelings of inadequacy and loneliness. But there are some important differences. Femcels are more likely than male incels to blame themselves for their frustrations, rather than blaming society as a whole.
Additionally, there seems to be less of a glorification of violence and few, if any, high profile cases of femcel violence. In contrast, there have been high profile cases of male incel mass violence, and the male incel community has sometimes glorified instances of mass violence, such as that of Elliot Rodger.
If it is true that men are more likely to be driven to Homeric violence by their problems than are women, that might provide an explanation for why men’s problems are given more attention and taken more seriously. They are more likely to make their problems into other people’s problems. But this likely is not a full explanation. Most men do not commit mass murder if they feel sexual frustration, and most problems people have do not drive them to commit mass murder. A fuller explanation likely involves stereotypes of women as more emotional and less authoritative than men, leading to society taking women’s issues less seriously.
The online femcel community may be seen as the female parallel to Clavicular-esque looksmaxxers and incels. In the same way that incels and looksmaxxers may have feelings of inadequacy in their looks, so may femcels. If this parallel is true, then it is unfortunate that femcels as a phenomenon do not receive as much attention in media and public discourse.
Femcels, incels, and the looksmaxxing community all have unhealthy tendencies and deserve attention. Despite this, the incel and looksmaxxing phenomena have received much more attention. A more well-rounded public discussion of these topics would involve more discussion of women’s issues like those that exist in the femcel community.
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