This piece is meant to illustrate the normalization of misogynistic hate speech, and how when it is formatted as a meme or simply content from an influencer, it is much more easily accessible to young impressionable boys. They begin to see these conservative figure heads as the ideal of masculinity, which can permanently poison the way they think about and interact with women. While the foreground is meant to look juvenile, the light from the computer casts a shadow on an excerpt from the manifesto of Elliot Rodger, a notorious member of the incel community turned mass-murderer.
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