The Internet fights about lots of things. I'm not saying there's literally only one thing the Internet gets in fights about at any given time. ![]() Everyone just stopped caring and moved on to race. ![]() Nor has some some other gender discourse arisen to replace them. But they're gone now - you'd have more luck looking for recent discourse about Osama bin Laden. When was the last time you heard people argue about "creeps", "nice guys", or "friendzoning"? Mansplaining? #NotAllMen? MRAs and PUAs? If you're in your early 20s, you might not even know what half these terms mean if you're older than that, you’ll remember them with a sort of cold dread. 2014 to 2016 was a sort of transition period, and after that the Internet became obsessed with race, with gender almost forgotten. From about 2011 to 2014, the Internet was obsessed with gender, with race on the back burner. We tend to conflate feminism and anti-racism under the general heading of "social justice", but this blinds us to important details. This pattern is surprising enough to deserve further analysis. Far from these topics increasingly dominating the discourse, they seem to be in decline - or, in the case of racism, to have been in decline until events intervened. ![]() Discussion of racism peaked in 2016, then declined - until the George Floyd protests of mid-2020, when it came back with a vengeance. But other gender-related terms (eg “sexism”) show mostly the same pattern as feminism, and other race-related terms (eg “white privilege”) show mostly the same pattern as racism.ĭiscussion of feminism plateaued from 2014 - 2016, then declined. I chose these as especially obvious terms.
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