IIRC, there was a study done with cats hearing recordings of random voices saying random words, random voices saying the cats' names, owners' voices saying random words, and owners' voices saying the cats' names, and then carefully measuring the cats' responses.
The findings pretty convincingly showed that cats full well know their own names but choose to ignore the calls.
There was a great interview with a woman who had written a book on the Manosphere and she said that it's "funnel-shaped," which is to say that the first stages are nowhere near as extreme as the ones they lead to. It starts off by talking to lonely young men and telling them that their feelings are valid and that they have value, both of which are things that young men very much do need to hear! But the pipeline then moves them from that to "Your feelings of isolation aren't your fault" to "Your negative feelings are women's fault," and then you're off the primrose path to "Women aren't people" and "Women deserve any horrible treatment you can think of."
But the earliest stages are ones of finding young men that aren't having their emotional or structural needs met, and filling that vacuum in.
I got cold-called by one of those "We'll buy your house!" scam outfits one time asking if I was interested in selling my modest single-story, two bedroom / one bathroom house.
Me: Not really!
Them: Well, if you were going to, what price would you hope to get?
Me: You know what, let's say five million dollars.
Them: Uh... is this the house at [my address]?
Me: Sure is!
Them: And... five million? You're firm on that?
Me: Well, anything is negotiable, of course. I've got to go now, bye!
And I just really hope that I wasted a little bit more of their time that day, but if someone were to make a horrible paperwork error and accidentally offer me five million dollars for a house worth a fraction of that, that's really on them, I'd say.
Also keep an eye out for people complaining about "globalists" and "coastal elites" because you'll find that the majority of the time, that means Jews.
And no, I don't care if there's good reason to believe that Tyrannosaurs weren't fluffy like owls, I still want a decent artist's depiction of a T. rex with owl-level fluff.
It's hard to find the original Daily Show clip, but they show part of it here. It's the most vile fucking double think imaginable, saying "Hey, I'm not racist, I just want to disenfranchise minority and student voters who HAPPEN to be mostly democrats, and by the way, yeah, I'm actually pretty fucking racist." I'm just glad that the Daily Show got to interview a guy who was so lacking in self-awareness that he said it all out loud.
Are you implying that I'm going to get impregnated by the books?
Because I'm not necessarily saying no to that.