50 Misogynistic Idiots Who Got Absolutely Wrecked Online (New Pics)

If your blood pressure rises as you scroll through these screenshots, take solace in the fact that you're not alone. Sadly, misogyny is quite on the rise online at the moment. A recent report by UN Women has found that online content drives backlash against feminism and promotes retrograde and misogynistic ideas about men's and women's roles in society.

But online spaces aren't the only place where women's rights are experiencing a setback. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which protected the right to abortion. Several European countries decided to pull out of the Istanbul Convention, a treaty on gender-based violence.

Mexico and Central America are experiencing violent attacks against women's rights defenders and activists. Costa Rican feminist activist Lydia Alpizar told UN News that we're seeing a surge of attacks against feminists working on gender-based violence all over the world.

In Nicaragua, political prisoners include women, human rights defenders like Kenia Hernandez are imprisoned in Mexico, and so are women who protest for protection of nature in El Salvador. According to Alpizar, governments are shifting their focus "on gender equality to a broader focus on families and children," and that's how women's issues get sidelined.

The deputy head of the research and data team at UN Women, Laura Turquet, also notes that the "manosphere" spaces online make it easier for misinformation and misogynistic sentiments to spread.

The 'manosphere,' according to her, is "an online ecosystem [of] extreme and outdated ideas, particularly about violence against women, but also related to a very narrow kind of idea of masculinity."

In such spaces, 'feminism' has become quite a dirty word. Even young men's attitudes reflect that, as 16% of Gen Z men in the UK say that feminism has done more harm than good. Only 13% of UK men aged 60 and older hold the same belief. Experts say that this trend is worrying because usually, younger generations are more receptive to social change.

Let's face it, when we think of a person having regressive, misogynistic views, we probably have an image of a boomer in our minds. But the director of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London, Professor Rosie Campbell, told The Guardian that this is because Gen Z is the first generation to derive most of their information from social media.

"There has been a zeitgeist where young women feel they can own the idea of feminist identity … [Young men] hear a lot about girl power but don't, at this stage in their lives, understand the inequalities that we know are in the world when you hit work and childcare," Campbell explained.