Admittedly I do not interact much with teenagers of any gender these days (praise be), and the closest connection I have to someone who does has a thoroughly unrepresentative sample (social worker helping teens who need the help to get jobs) but like - where exactly is all this 'today's teenage boys are uniquely reactionary misogynists' actually coming from, anyway?
Like my memories are by now foggy but I'm pretty sure the teenage boys of the late 2000s weren't exactly all intersectional feminists either.
#i was violently sexually harassed by my dude peers at 13 and their other victim of choice was a (then closeted) trans girl#tbh our female peers also participated in hounding and bullying and mocking and encouraged the sexual harassment#but the guys would grope me and tried to force me to kiss them and wrote all the things they wanted to do to me#they also broke that girl's arm while beating her#im sure they also harassed her in other ways. we had empathy for each other but didnt talk about our harassment in detail out of fear