Ehhhh...sorry but it's rarely just a phase. There's a massive amount of older women that are Pickmes. They might get less social traction but they're all over the place. It usually is super common in women that have been with men for a long time, who end up slowly having to accept bad things as a result of being with the average man and cater to him. There's a lot out there that will pretty much do anything in order to keep their families together, even overlook a man's abuse. It certainly doesn't help most men that do shady things seem normal.

Same with how little boys are now exposed to Andrew Tate. There's girls that say that they've been regurgitating some extremely dark stuff and being openly misogynistic--and what I've heard is...well, worse than what I went through in grade school, honestly, and people might go, oh, they'll grow out of it even though their formative years will be full of things that the alt-right and incels have been cooking up and weaponizing as thought-contagions/memes for years.