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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's funny how many of these comments are complaining about what the guy said, while conveniently ignoring that the woman posted first and he's just clapping back.

How does it go, don't dish out what you can't handle having dished back?

If we deconstruct the process, it looks something like this:

  1. Some guys act like colossal assholes

  2. Guys who call them out get ridiculed as "nice guys."

  3. Colossal assholes get all the attention.

  4. Women generalize "colossal assholes" as "men."

  5. Guys who say "not all men" get ridiculed and called "redpilled incel chud."

  6. Keyboard pseudo-feminist influencers confuse "smash the patriarchy" with "be the patriarchy" ("gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss, slay gurl slay").

  7. Women get duped into thinking pseudo-feminism is real feminism, and begin acting like the colossal assholes that they initially criticized.

  8. Guys call out this behavior, and women go "OMG! History! Oppression! Women are subjugated by the patriarchy grbhrhbrhh!" Or "Men deserve to be treated like shit because women have been treated like shit by men!" And "LOL 'not all men' LOSER stop mansplaining!!1!1!1!!" Oh and don't forget "Your feelings/problems don't matter because you're a man, so suck it up buttercup, be a Real Man™!!!" (Literally promoting toxic masculinity, the opposite of feminism).

  9. Some guys get sick of this treatment, give up on trying, commiserate with other guys with similar experiences, and everyone takes this as confirmation bias that they were always misogynists and deserve all the ridicule and scorn that they're loaded with.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Can’t argue with a single point.

The main downside is that № 9 is a gateway to the redpill “manosphere”, which if they enter into incel communities this can go very bad for their mental health and interpersonal relationships.

It’s why I have always pushed people like this to the MGTOW communities, which are all about camaraderie, self-improvement, rational self-assessment, setting healthy boundaries, and cultivating intrinsic (internal) motivation such that companionship of any kind switches from a psychological necessity to a value-added prospect, where the man can trivially walk away if the value just isn’t there.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, exactly. I've been pointing this out for years.

Guys who feel rejected and marginalized are relegated to spaces where it's mostly an echo chamber of other guys like them. Most of these guys are vulnerable due to social isolation, loneliness, and the mental health issues that inevitably result (which is an empirically established fact within the field of psychology, so I'm tired of hearing people act like it doesn't fucking matter).

Predatory "manfluencers" know this, so they go to these spaces to poach and radicalize "loser virgins," basically by negging them and saying that they can "coach" them on how to not be a loser. "Be like me, get laid, then you're no longer an incel and people will finally like you."

It's a lie, obviously, but it works on large numbers and that's why you see this huge uptick on disillusioned outcasts getting absorbed into these toxic spaces.

But whenever I call that out, people say things like "Why should I have any sympathy for these sexists," which not only partially conflates the "losers" with the predatory abusers manipulating them, it also ignores the chronology of the whole thing. These guys aren't born misogynist. They get radicalized, because they were vulnerable. And people ignore that my argument is directed towards addressing that vulnerability which fosters wide-spread radicalization; not to accepting misogyny from people who are already radicalized.

Or they accuse me of some sort of victim blaming, as if I was trying to say that women get abused because they reject men. That's a severe distortion of what I was saying. Abuse is not excusable. But it can be prevented, and part of that prevention should be preventing widespread radicalization by giving young men spaces where they feel appreciated and like they belong, so that they don't wind up in the echo chambers where they get poached by the manosphere.

Or people say "Why should we help someone who even would be radicalized?" But that ignores the psychology of radicalization. It can happen to anyone who's placed in a vulnerable position for long enough, and social isolation is one of the major indicators for at-risk individuals. Everyone has their psychological limit; some people just never get pushed anywhere near theirs. That needs to be recognized as a privilege. Someone might be incredibly strong psychologically, but if they're isolated long enough and constantly subjected to ridicule and scorn, then they very much can reach their breaking point. And that's when the abusers sweep in with their negging and their bait-and-switch to get these guys hooked on the bullshit they're selling.

Or I make any of these arguments, and people don't even listen and just assume I'm trying to justify misogyny and abuse, and they label me as an incel (because who else would think about this?), and since they equate "incel" with the abusers who prey on them, that's a socially sanctionable label, and therefore my own isolation and mental illness become a moral failing on my part, which everyone holds against me.

And I swear, if I wasn't psychologically stronger, I could very much have wound up radicalized in the same way. I almost did a few times. The initial negging and carrot-waving can be very insidious and hard to detect early on.

But since I've been abused myself by toxic machismo assholes, I had a deep-seated burning hatred for them. I would never join them. I'd literally kill myself first, and I almost have a few times. So even though everyone else hates me and rejects me because they think I'm already one of them (just for being lonely and isolated, imagine that!), and that makes me precisely the target demographic that those abusers try to radicalize, I'll never be one of them.

So I'm caught somewhere in the middle, with no friends, trying to objectively look at the problem and describe it with clarity so that people smarter than myself can determine how to adequately address it.

And simply because I don't parrot the same vitriol that everyone else does, and choose instead to identify the root of the problem so that a real solution can be found, I'm flamed for it and the cycle of isolation continues.

Edit:

BTW, I don't know anything about MGTOW, but I'd say most men's lib movements often get co-opted by the far-right because liberal and leftist guys are strongly discouraged from participating in any sort of community like that.

Even if it starts in a healthy way, people label it as part of the manosphere, so all the healthy guys leave, and the only ones left are the ones who are unstable/vulnerable and the ones who want to prey on these easy targets. The latter are usually the die-hard sexists which the movements ultimately wind up being known for.

Edit 2:

Yeah, it looks like Wikipedia says MGTOW is part of the manosphere and dominated by the far-right, even though a cursory inspection seems to indicate that it's just a bunch of men choosing not to prioritize dating and romance in their lives.

I don't know enough about it to say one way or the other, but I wouldn't be surprised if men who decide they don't need women in their lives are labeled as misogynist (even though men who do believe they need women in their lives are also called misogynist... go figure...)

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it looks like Wikipedia says MGTOW is part of the manosphere and dominated by the far-right,

I think that specific article takes the prize for being by far the most blatantly inaccurate and downright socially poisoned article on Wikipedia.

It’s an extreme example of gender bigotry bias, and ideological “poisoning of the well” by female supremacists. It’s their straw man that they can point to and claim MGTOW is “misogynistic”.

The problem with most redpill communities is that they are recruiting fields for alt-right troglodytes. So most any incel forum will also be awash with appeals to emotion to blind the young men in there to the underlying alt-right messaging.

But MGTOW? Sure, some men are right-wing. But it’s hard to be of the right when the focus is on genuine self-improvement and brutally rational analysis.

After all, reality itself has a strong left-leaning bias.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that sees through it. It really feels like it at times. That's part of the reason why isolation is so toxic.