Antifeminist attitudes are widespread on social media. They are derogatory to hostile towards women and female-identified people, their rights and equality.

Young users are quickly confronted with misogynistic content on TikTok, YouTube or Instagram, ranging from patriarchal role models and the devaluation of women to fantasies of violence and murder.

Misogynistic influencers want to return to a supposedly traditional world with “real men”; antifeminist influencers romanticize submissiveness and their own ideas of “true femininity ”.

Antifeminism can not only convey problematic gender images but also act as a gateway to extremist worldviews.

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