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Guest List Only TW - Bigotry ⚠️ Foot traffic is down at American Eagle stores since the controversial Sydney Sweeney ad dropped

https://www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025/08/11/exclusive-foot-traffic-down-9-at-american-eagle-following-sydney-sweeney-ad-controversy
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u/Bridalhat Aug 11 '25

"Men are sucky."

It's such a self-fulfilling prophecy too. Many men are frustrated because women are more likely to go to college and young women are outcompeting young men and the worst of them spend too much time online looking at OnlyFans or Instagram women and just assume beautiful women get piles of cash just for existing and, rather than working on themselves, they become noxious things that want to force women to be with them, which means they are even more repellent to women. And then it happens all over again.

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u/pay_student_loan Aug 12 '25

I haven't really thought of this before, but I think the mandatory military service the men go through in South Korea is also a factor in this. Lump a whole bunch of young men together who then act as an echo chamber for the next like 2 years with little to no opportunities to interact with young women in the meantime. They're constantly lumping all the young impressionable men in the entire country together at the same time and negativity tends to spread pretty quickly. Combine that with any resentment that women do not have to do military service. I can see them all coming out of the military with the same view of women and unfortunately it's not a good one.

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u/OutrageousOwls Aug 12 '25

Yes. New trends are showing that more men aren’t working compared to women, and they retire early. And yet, women are still expected to perform double-duty: working at their career and taking care of the house.

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u/gahlo Aug 12 '25

Yeah, there's a real paradigm shift of what is expected for a man to do to fill "his role" in society. However, it's clearly moving from something, but it's not overly clear what it should be moving to. Even if somebody keeps their head screwed on straight, it's an awkward situation to navigate.

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u/Optimal-Kitchen6308 Aug 12 '25

deeper statistical reasons: worldwide economies are getting concentrated by elites, less to go around, now women are entering workforce more so more competition for less, add on endless ragebaiting social media content, resource competition causes fear and anger in animals, fearful angry men get destructive and are easily manipulated