To find this disturbing?

[username108]

My local town has a facebook page and often has things about injured animals like cats or birds etc. Everytime it's mostly women that post sympathetic, kind helpful things and the men post the most vile horrible things, showing a disturbing lack of empathy towards animals. I think it says a lot about mens behaviour tbh, it's quite disturbing.

Depends what they post, isn't it. I have never seen men regularly posting vile things on our groups.

It's not a universal phenomenon, really. There are obviously more oddballs than average in your town, who just happen to be male.

It's either not universal or we have a better admin moderation system than your local Facebook page

We have lots of women posting about "fur babies" and injured pheasants that get plenty of derision - we are a rural area with new housing estates populated by people who are surprised that birds fall from nests and that animals do die.

It's good that there are people out there making these scientific observations on modern life, OP, and not falling into the trap of weird sweeping generalisations that make them sound like a tit.

We often have women on ours wondering if they should adopt the lovely, affectionate, clearly well fed, 'stray' cats that always comes to their house begging for food.
Maybe any men that think they should adopt another person's cat dont bother posting first?

Yep I’ve noticed that ,
Women found an injured bird ,all the women had ideas to help ,the men ,went on and on about bird pie .

It must be just my village then, if there is a FB Community page notice about a missing cat or dog, and once a chicken, that had gone missing, The poster will ask if there are any men available, who would join him, to go out with torches, and search the village and woods if the animal was still not found by nightfall. !!

Could be an indication of male conditioning. Some of those men might feel they “have” to say those things to be macho, or the sensitive caring men don’t feel it’s socially acceptable to express care for animals

@Pringlemonster

Yep I’ve noticed that , Women found an injured bird ,all the women had ideas to help ,the men ,went on and on about bird pie .

That's not vile. That's practical😁 Depends on the bird. I have lovely looking wood pigeons here😁

The men I know are complete softies when it comes to animals.

Not just women on ours. We have a lovely man on our fb page who runs a wildlife rescue. He will drive to pick up injured wildlife from a wide area and does his best to help them. He's a local treasure and very much in demand this time of year.

The local hedgehog rescue is a husband and wife team.

Maybe men think it's a bit soft to worry about animals? Sad if they do. I think it's a hugely attractive trait.

But tbh I think a lot of men over a certain age don't do social media anyway. It's more of a female thing. My dh is nearly 50 and wouldn't know where to start with it.

I haven't noticed this particular phenomenon. But, I do think toxic masculinity is a big problem. People go on about the % of terrorist incidents or mass murders carried out by Muslims / Right Wing extremists / black people etc, but it rarely gets mentioned that almost 100% are carried out by men. And often men with a history of domestic violence. Not to say that all men are evil obviously - but I do think that as a society we need to start looking seriously at detoxifying masculinity.