To ask what really combats misogyny? What can I do?

[seriouslysara]

Feeling miserable and angry after recent news stories, a sentence that's always true probably but right now I mean the vile cowardly man who took the lives of three loved and innocent women and the popularity of that awful content creator.

What can people do to make a difference and reduce violent misogyny? What actually helps? Are there examples of things in other countries that work or make it worse?

Here's everything I can think of:

1. Donate to refuges and campaigners
2. Raise these issues with our children and check what they're accessing online
3. Be a listening ear to friends in the hope they'd tell you if they were at risk
4. Campaign for better policing (new or different laws?)
5. Help spread useful resources and accurate info
6. Call out misogyny when I see it and when it's safe to
7. Try to support women owned businesses so more women have capital
8. Support organizations that give young people have opportunities so they're not radicalized?
9. Book self defense classes for our girls and their friends?

I want to direct my anger somewhere to something positive. A law to campaign to change? A cause to raise money for? An action of support or resistance? A career change to help people?

Genuine question. What can I do? What can we do?

Oh, and referring to groups of people as guys, or individuals in the same way -bruv, bro.

I call it out every single time. I get eye rolling but give a damn I do not.

What do you mean by "general crime", some theories of the causes of crime are precisely that criminal behaviour is normalised. You might disagree but that's not a controversial theory.

I also don't think misogyny or sexism are normalised either. It's entirely alien to the men in my life. They're directly comparable.

I wish more women would do this. Actually know their own value and refuse to be with subpar men.

Crime is not normalised in the way sexism and misogyny is.

It’s not. Nobody criticises you for being “oversensitive” for objecting to criminal behaviour the same way that objecting to sexism gets you laelled. It’s a terrible comparison. Only men can tackle sexism because men listen to other men. They don’t care what women think or feel.

Because if the instance of sexism was that bad, it would be criminal? So it is by definition worse? Help me out here, what am I missing