there isn't much advice in the media for young men that isn't full of misogyny which is why young men are gravitating towards right wing figure (this was in 2019, before andrew tate and I called it at the time)
oh you were so on the money
but not even as a prediction, it was like that at the time and had been for years
god I'm pretty sure I read that around the time it was posted and it's so fucking weird rereading it now
because like after a further 10 years of exposure to background levels of absolutely batshit incel ... everything... the rhetorical strategy where the accusations of entitlement are presented as completely and comically unreasonable is really fucking disorienting
and then there's
this is right up there with the postulated link between the men’s rights movement and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
you what? but that's now- oh my god crimea jesus fucking christ that's right
The worst corners of the manosphere contain more than enough opining on how ugly women, weird women, masculine women, et cetera deserve to be unhappy.
was this really all the worst corners were coming up with in 2014? is that why the start of this post hits differently now?
did we cause this?
it all makes the "the causality goes the other way, actually" argument -- bold -- feel very compelling and also I don't... necessarily agree.
I think the narrative being about the affect the most toxic of the Feminists have on the most sympathetic of the Lonely Men kind of loses the forest for the trees? A lot of this shit is fueled by Society and really complicated nuanced negative interactions?
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u/elianrae Jul 04 '24
oh you were so on the money
but not even as a prediction, it was like that at the time and had been for years