I only disagree in so far as to the people participating in that culture it absolutely dominates their life and world view, and does represent a variety of cultural affiliations, and they all share the same trait of being too online. I have absolutely met hippy-chick girl bosses. For me, most of these attitudes are simultaneous and reactionary to each other, and both represent capitalist ideology, even if manosphere trends more regressionary.

It’s hard to describe if you haven’t encountered it irl, but it is basically the lib version of the ‘trad-wife’ and usually I find it occurs in women who are ex-christians (at least in the ones who have bothered to talk about it). My assumption is that they want to be protected by a man and grew up with that being their interest, but they also want to ‘be free’, so the next best thing they can do is antagonize people at the bar so some man can step in and ‘protect them’. It’s a weird reoccurring thing and the only reason I know about it is because usually I am the one that they want to protect them even though I only met them an hour ago and I agree with the other party that they are being an asshole. The GGG attitude is far more prevalent, but I have run into this particular phenomena at least six or seven times, enough to recognize it almost on sight at this point. It absolutely stems from online ‘trad-wife’ rhetoric, just translated to the weird a-political bar culture.

Edit: Just to be clear, Trad-wife is also toxic, but I rarely run into that at a bar.

2nd Edit: And this is also besides the multitude of toxic behaviors that are shared between the genders at bars.

3rd edit: I get what you are saying, but as a man who happens to spend most of his time talking to both genders in bars, trust me, it is there, even among people who reject it. You probably just don’t know the language to recognize it when it is occuring. Especially when I hear some of the advice that women give each other concerning men, much of it feels designed to cause more problems. But idk, my opinion is that most people are making things way more complicated than they have to because they are bored and like to play and most problems occur when one party doesn’t understand the game that the other one is playing. As long as people are respecting personal boundaries at the bar, I could care less.

4th and final edit because I genuinely do not like talking about this: I will concede that perhaps it is not specifically a mentality, but more of a series of toxic behaviors that I notice. Perhaps they are completely unrelated, I’m not an anthropologist on this by any means.