AcolyteOfCynicism Archive

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20	This approach to men issues on the left will never work. Maybe its because I'm Neurodivergent but I think the "good male role model" concept fundamentally misses the real issue. The issue isn't the template for "how to be a man" is bad(although it is), the issue is trying to enforce such a template at all. I find the very notion of a person being subjected to specific expectations based on happenstance of birth to be abhorrent. Beyond being a good person, let people figure out the specifics for themselves. At the end of the day no one is obligated to …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	23/07/26 04:47 PM
3	Saving Men from Feminism in order to Save Feminism Is a Lousy Idea As a Leftist, IMO step 1 should be taking on the class issues and getting corporate money out of politics. Working class solidarity, union, a living wage, ending the drug war, banning private prisons, free or atleast affordable post-secondary school, just to name a few things is what should be focused on. Until the material needs of the masses are met, we're too easily divided against eachother. Then we circle back and work on the remaining issues.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/07/26 06:40 PM
2	Ana Psychology misses the point of benevolent sexism. I watched a handful of her vids and it was immediately apparent something was off. In every hypothetical in every video I watched, a man was the villian and a woman the victim. At some point the pattern becomes a little eyebrow raising.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/06/26 05:35 PM
4	Why "The Patriarchy" Is Actually a Gynocentric Oligarchy Just speaking to my experience, I got medicated and saw many of my friends medicated into zombies. Cherry on top, my issue wasn't ADHD, it was undiagnosed aspergers. In the late 90s where I was if you were too energetic, asked too many questions, too independent basically anything that annoyed a bad teacher it was adderall for you.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	09/10/25 03:25 PM
7	Major news outlets rebrands "male loneliness epidemic" as "loneliness epidemic" I can't say for sure but this feels like what happened with autism.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/07/25 06:25 PM
3	What's Worse About Misandry/Misandrists? I'll say this, when I was younger I thought it was caused more by hatred of men. And while I could technically still call it that, I think what really caused the misandry we're seeing more of was caused by people caring about women while not really giving a shit about men. So when boys and young men started falling behind and, at best told they don't need help, at worst lectured about their privilege, they not surprisingly became embittered. When they happened did the culture put the focus on th…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	13/07/25 03:43 PM
7	MASCULINITY ~ a case for courage Socially, culturally and morally its not or shouldn't be a zero sum game but like the other comments highlight, economically it can be a zero sum game. Which is in largely the fault of the cult of capitalism pushing anti government sentiment for decades. Any push to help men is often framed as taking money away from women as a diversion tactic and not just allocated tax money to provide services for those in need from the greater tax pool, its mixing a strawman argument with poisoning the well. …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	13/07/25 03:29 PM
9	What about this article? Is Mrs. Fiamengo too strict here to a woman trying to make a step towards peace with men? It could also just be that Public Spaces usually mean spending money, which for most isn't something they have excess of. Then couple that with gender norms, be they biological, social, or both, men on average see social gathering as more of an optional luxury and are more conditioned to be a provider and put others ahead of themselves. So it could just be that a good chunk of these "missing men" are just staying home to save money and if they have a family, save it for higher priority expenditu…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	13/07/25 03:08 PM
1	Are We Wrong About Prison Rape My only issue with someone sleeping with their superior is them getting special privileges at work. Regardless of gender.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	10/06/25 07:08 PM
5	Men don’t know how to talk about their feelings. I'm on the spectrum but high functioning and I've gotten this my whole life. I got it from a trained therapist during couples therapy, just handed me an emotion wheel and began explaining basic psych 101. Sadly I didn't know I was autistic at the time plus it was one of the first couple sessions so I just brushed it off. How does one even judge if someone is communicating an emotion correctly? There's no objective standard, we can't directly experience eachothers emotions? So how can you judge s…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	10/06/25 06:55 PM
1	Email Your State Democratic Party And Tell Them Why Men Are Leaving Right, the "toxic masculinity" needs to go. I explained my reasons to my therapist and at first she had the standard response but next session she told me she had been thinking about it and came to agree with my assessment.(Too name a few reasons) Number 1: Its obviously bad marketing. The fact it confuses so many in a very similar way indicates an issue. Number 2: Its applying the adjective "toxic" to a basic trait most men have. A term like toxic misogyny/misandry would be better since those a…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	01/06/25 10:57 PM
29	I made this meme to broadly describe our current situation, and why it is so hard for us to speak up Thats pretty much how it went for me. If feminism was a room, I was super excited to go in and 2 minutes later I walked the f*** out. Did I know exactly what was wrong at the time? No. Did it trigger many of the same red flag alarms in my head that evangelicals did? Yup!	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	22/05/25 07:29 PM
9	Once you see it you can't unsee it The way I see isn't so much that men are hated by most people on the left, its more that they just don't care. Personally I blame capitalisms co-opting the left aka NeoLiberalism and that influence drips down into liberal social movements aswell, not so much directing towards specific things but more away from things that get to close to being class solidarity ideals.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	04/05/25 03:16 PM
0	What a horrible court decision has been released in the UK today. In a perfect, hell not even perfect, just a half decent world gendered bathrooms wouldn't even need to exist. You walk in, go to a stall, do your business, wash your hands and leave. That's it. But too many people would be weirded out by it and sadly too many people would be fucking creepos for them to be dealt with as one off cases.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/04/25 04:47 PM
1	What is your relationship with masculinity like? To be honest I don't have one, like my ND brain's architecture just doesn't even consider such things. I've always thought of myself as person and being male is just one of many arbitrary traits. So if you ask me something like "As a man, how did that make you feel?" I'm like "I have no idea, I've never been anything other than what I am and I don't even know how that compares to what other might call masculinity, I have no frame of reference or way to discern if I even have what one might call …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/04/25 04:40 PM
2	Is Feminism a right-wing movement? I'd say its less about Left vs Right and more about Authoritarian vs Libertarian. Based on the doctrine I've read, there's nothing explicitly leftist about the movement, which isn't surprising, many of the foundation members where upper middle class white christian women so not exactly the most oppressed demographic. In their current form I'd say they're soft authoritarian center left. So not super authoritarian but not libertarian, and technically left but more center than left.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/04/25 04:31 PM
2	What would it take to get the left side of the aisle in general to genuinely acknowledge and criticize double standards around men and gender roles? My current strategy is come at it from a different angle, and first try to get them to see how capitalism in the form of NeoLiberalism has co-opted the left and social progressive moments so they never become a threat to actual power structure. A true reevaluation of gender norms would mean confronting how men have been exploited for their labor/service. Which hits a bit to close to union talking points for some. Also it means challenging this idea that women working is inheriantly empowering. I…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/04/25 07:54 PM
7	There's victim blaming everywhere I go I do take issue with the term toxic masculinity but not because I think it means masculinity is toxic. I understand names "should" be arbitrary but they're just not, its the first impression someone gets of the idea. The fact so many people are confused by the name, even without grifters, and the that its so easy to misconstrue by said grifters implys its a bad name. Also the double standard, if people truly believed toxic masculinity has nothing to do with calling masculinity toxic and its abou…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	25/06/24 05:25 PM