A Canadian professor is gaining popularity on TikTok for dismantling harmful dating advice from the manosphere.
Neil Shyminsky is shown in an undated handout selfie. Shyminsky, an English professor in Sudbury, makes social media content dismantling patriarchy and misogyny.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Neil ShyminskyA young man with a buzz cut leans on a pristine countertop in a stark white kitchen and looks directly into the camera as he delivers what he presents as the secret to dating success for straight men.
'Finding a girl that will do whatever you want her to do,' whether that's staying home or refraining from posting certain things online, is 'easy,' the man says confidently. Just give her financial security and don’t be ugly, he explains.'Spoiler alert: that is, in reality, not it,' Neil Shyminsky interjects in his video rebuttal of the young man's social-media post. In between snippets of the original clip, Shyminsky, wearing a dark hoodie and rectangular glasses against a backdrop of loaded bookcases, recaps research on what women look for in romantic relationships before concluding that what the man is describing isn't, in fact, a girlfriend. 'She's financially dependent on you and has to be responsive to all your directives,' he says. 'Congratulations! You have an employee – and one hell of a toxic workplace.' Shyminsky's video, posted roughly a month ago, has drawn more than 10,000 likes on TikTok as well as reams of comments there and on Instagram, largely from people denouncing or making fun of the initial advice. As misogynistic rhetoric fuelled by influencers such as Andrew Tate increasingly infiltrates daily conversations online and off, a small cohort of men is building a following on social media dismantling messages from the so-called manosphere, one meme and video stitch at a time. Shyminsky, an English professor at a college in Sudbury, Ont., who goes by @professorneil on TikTok, picks apart popular videos and podcast excerpts multiple times a week for his hundreds of thousands of followers on various social media platform
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