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No. Cite any part of the communist manifesto that says the bourgeoisie are morally evil, and not acting for their own self interest in a system that means that leads to them oppressing the proletariat.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/11/25 07:35 PM
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With all due respect, I don't think you understand either feminism or marxism deep enough to make a critique like this at all. Marx doesn't talk about oppression in the way that you mean here at all. The bourgeoise doesn't oppress the proletariat because they are evil or whatever, it is because under capitalism, that is a necessary protection of their own self-interest.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/11/25 09:54 AM
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Both have classist elements, that's true
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/11/25 07:38 PM
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I half-agree, as deadbeat dad to my understanding doesn't carry the same racial undertones. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong tho.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/11/25 11:41 AM
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There is quite a bit of biphobia among gay men too.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/06/25 05:57 AM
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Biphobia is the weirdest shit. I once had a bisexual woman tell me after the first date that "sorry, but I just can't date a bisexual man, it's too weird". Okay
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/06/25 06:36 AM
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I mean, that's just standard human behavior. I can't count how many times I found myself explaining to male friends that their one shitty ex is not representative of all women who have ever lived. But yea, it's still something you should change in your own thinking when it's there.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/06/25 12:49 PM
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I'll be honest, I heard the stereotypical "locker room talk" only a couple times in my life. It does make me uncomfortable when men I sort of know from university or whatever talk to me about their sexlife. Lot of women do discuss their sex lives much more with their friends then men do, at least that's a common meme in my friend circle. I wonder if there is any study into this topic, cause I don't just want to rely on my personal experience.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/06/25 07:23 AM
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I see you met my father.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/03/25 01:17 PM
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In a strange way, using incel as an insult uses the same logic for gender politics that neoliberals use for the economy. I know that sounds weird, but hear me out. Neolibs implicitly think, that financial success is earned meritocratically. So if you are wealthy, you earned it, if you are poor, you fucked up. This is the same thing that using "incel" as a replacement for "misogynist" does - you implicitly assume that all sexual "success" is earned fairly, so nobody who has sex can be a bad perso…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/03/25 01:17 PM
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A lot of the non-intersectional feminists will still enforce traditional gender roles for men by acting like all the sins of traditional masculinity are somehow biologically inherent to men. Any leftist worth listening to will recognize that most to all of that is societally determined, and you can't really blame men for that more than you can blame women for whatever toxic roles society dealt them. (That is to say, you can of course condemn individuals, but any real solution, by necessity, need…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/03/25 02:20 PM
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The only halfway true thing is that being a leftist doesn't guarantee you are a good guy, or not a misogynyst. I'd argue this is still a false equivalence tho, clearly stemming from her abusive relationship with that one anarchist. Anyone saying there is no difference in the level of misoginy between the average leftist and the average right winger is delusional. I could even argue it between the average liberal and average right winger, but leftists? That's even a tier beyond that, I'd say.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/03/25 02:18 PM
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No I don't, I am a gender abolitionist, in that I don't think gender roles SHOULD exist. However, at least in current society I am living in, they do exist. Men and women on average act different, are socialized differently, and are treated differently. I don't quite understand a lot of your questions, they feel kind of loaded to me. What does a "culture created around judging the traits of another person" mean? Do I believe in shaming people for traits they can't do anything about, of course no…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/01/25 10:53 PM
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Agree to disagree I guess, since we are going in circles at this point. I don't think toxic masculinity is an inherently sexist term, the same way I don't think something like "unsatisfied primary narcissism" (a form of trauma people that were not cared for properly as children sometimes have) is an inherently negative term just because "narcissism" gets viewed that way. Masculinity can be toxic, and can be non-toxic. I read toxic masculinity as referring to the aspects of masculinity that are b…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/01/25 10:14 PM
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I mean, I'm not in the habit of ceding academic terms to people who misuse them. Toxic masculinity as a term originates from men's rights circles. The fact that people misuse it doesn't make me want to abandon it, I'll just keep using it correctly, lol. Same with patriarchy, and all other terms. I don't see how lowering everything to the level of discourse the dumbest terminally online people operate at is a good idea.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/01/25 09:58 PM
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A lot of these are the fault of the social structure that feminist theory calls patriarchy. (and present day leftist Eastern Europeans call the social/gender aspect of an oligarchy/spin dictatorship/Orbanism, or general leftists call social alienation and division sewn by the capital class) The problem is that people don't know what these terms mean. Patriarchy differentiates, and draws hard lines between men and women, and oppresses both of them for the benefit of patriarchs. Men and women get …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/01/25 07:18 PM
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The "by other men" is the most common reactionary argument that nominally progressive people make. It is just pure victim blaming, it is in every way equivalent to the "black people get murdered by other black people" argument racists make.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/01/25 07:11 PM
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I'm currently from my phone, but I'll have to read the full study when I get in front of my PC cause I am interested in the methodology. E.g. the first big thing I can think of, is if someone asks me if I want to have sex, it would kind of be redundant to ask the same question back, so part of the difference may just stem from men being more likely ton approach. I'm quite interested in how/if they controlled for that.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/01/25 06:50 PM
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Considering the effects steroids have on mental stability and emotional regulation, and the level of toxicity oozing from (in my personal experience of doing martial arts/combat sports for 10+ years) like every third or so guy that does boxing/BJJ/whatever, and a certain well known statistic involving 40% of police officers, I'd say domestic abusers are probably way more likely to be "tough guys that could fuck you up" compared to just all men in general. Regarding your conclusion in the edit at…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/01/25 12:32 PM
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I mean, you CAN say it's not real feminism, but then you have to show where it contradicts feminist theory. TERF ideology contradicts intersectionality, which 3rd wave feminists largely adopted, but it doesn't contradict core feminist theory itself.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/01/25 07:45 AM
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He has a good community around him luckily, at least for him, these crazies have mostly been an online experience.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/01/25 07:42 AM
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Also, I'd somewhat disagree with your second paragraph, and this goes into my big problem with the related "TERFs are not real feminists" argument. These views in this post, or those expressed by TERFs are also rooted in feminist theory. It's just non-intersectional feminist theory. If you look at any supposedly feminist theory based critique of TERF ideology, it is really intersectional critique wrapped into feminist terminology.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/01/25 11:01 PM
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My brother is also trans, and he expressed frustration about this to me - how half the feminist spaces treat him as the devil incarnate, and the other half is like "KILL ALL MEN, oh, but not you, you know, you're not a man the way they are men". And then there is that tiny % left, who actually understand intersectionality theory, and aren't raging lunatics.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/01/25 10:59 PM
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Nah, Bluesky is still way better, I swear I see less crazies of the "pretend to understand progressiv theory" liberal variety as well on there.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/01/25 10:56 PM
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I'm a bi man, and being that in Eastern Europe, (and living in a big, liberal city) I do my best to date really progressive women (and men, but you know, gay men tend not to be rabid conservatives around here). You wouldn't believe half the shit I get from them. Yea, SOME gay men are biphobic, but from my personal experience, a majority of straight cis women are. Hell, I had a bi woman tell me she wasn't comfortable dating a bi man, which is, okay, she is entitled to her preferences of course, b…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/01/25 10:55 PM
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What no intersectionality does to a mf
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/01/25 10:51 PM
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To this day, nobody could explain to me how "by other men" is any different of an argument then what conservatives do when dismissing the issues black people in the HS face by pointing to black on black crime.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/12/24 06:37 AM
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As far as I understand, this mentality is common in multiple Asian countries, tho it is also a thing here in Eastern Europe. (Tho maybe not as ingrained)
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/12/24 07:04 AM
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Every time I see one of those posts where someone is joking about hiding their hobby stuff from their wife, I get so sad.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/12/24 07:02 AM
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Being emotionally independent is a part of being grown up, even if what you are teaching is not real emotional independence, just what masquarades for it when it comes to men. I agree with your other comment, that girls tend to have more pressure to do "adult chores", especially earlier on. (Tho this probably does depend on culture of course)
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/10/24 08:02 PM
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The whole Flowers for Algernon thing - is it better to have something appreciated in you that you are inevitably going to lose, or never having it in the first place.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/10/24 01:10 PM
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Strange, I never considered this double standard in popular media, but you are completely right. I'd say there is even something similar in other aspects, like how we view the typical criminal. Black people are "dumb thugs," while all the "cool, suave gangster" types you see in movies are typically white people. And as someone who grew up around a lot of white organised crime (being from Eastern Europe) I can tell you that is so not the reality.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/10/24 01:09 PM
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The way gender roles affect your upbringing is a very intetesting topic. I would say boys are also expected to be too grown up - the whole boys don't cry thing. But adherence to a "proper etiquette" and being "the bigger person" in a conflict is definitely something more pushed on AFABs.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/10/24 01:05 PM
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I do not have or want children, and as such, I get a lot of what is basically harassment for it from friends, family, and even strangers. However, women who are childfree have it so much worse in this. Edit: to be clear, I am by no means saying this is a bigger women's issue then sexual harassment, or whatever, I just wanted to say something that I didn't see mentioned yet.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/10/24 01:03 PM
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It is true that the reason is just capialism, not some mystery people being bad, hence the saying feminism without anti-capitalism is inherently flawed. But the outcome is still a disproportionately negative effect on women.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/10/24 01:01 PM
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I live in a very homophobic Eastern European country, and at least here currently, gay men definitely have it worse than lesbian women. The latter is often erased or ignored, but gay men are the ones that are demonised by government propaganda constantly. Even in the most progressive cities, you never see two men holding hands, and while it's not exactly common with two women, it does happen. People of colour do have it the worst in government propaganda here.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/09/24 07:37 PM
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I disliked basically every anime my friend made me watch, it's really not my thing usually, but Bebop is just so good, man. I'm on my 3rd rewatch I think, that's probably why it was the first example I though of.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/09/24 09:47 AM
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I always interpreted the male gaze to be primarily about media. How even women, who are not meant to be these very sexual beings, are shown in, e.g., movies. Something I distinctly remember, is the woman in the Honky Tonk Woman episode of Cowboy Bebop - we spend a good half minute just looking at her hip sway and legs and whatnot, when she is not at all this sexual, femme fatale type. (There are some justifications for this in the text of the episode arguably, but you get the point) So I think y…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/09/24 06:33 AM
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English is my second language, so admittedly, I may be wrong on this, correct me if so. The way I always used "male dominated" in this sense is that it's sort of a "vast majority". I wouldn't call a field with 52% men, 48% women a male dominated one, cause the majority is not significant enough that the male majority affects the culture of that space. As an example, the culture of software development is definitely affected by it being mostly men in this field, so I would call it male dominated.…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/08/24 08:57 AM
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I don't think it's a misandrist term, it describes a field where men are the numerical majority. Even if we eliminated all misogyny in it tomorrow, software development would still be "male dominated." There is often an implicit, unstated argument that a field being male dominated is a bad thing, but that's not the fault of the term itself.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/08/24 06:52 AM
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I mean, it may be interesting to theorize about what we should do if that happens, but again, I don't see any evidence this is actually happening, in fact, I see evidence to the contrary. It's not like the right is that pro-man. They posture as such maybe, but "yea bro, just be tough, emotionless and on the grindset" is not exactly great. The real problems men face, such as suicide, mental health, inaccessibility of help for victims of abuse and rape, and prison sentencing imbalances are not rea…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/06/24 12:47 PM
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I somewhat disagree with the premise. By every reliable study, the younger generations are more and more left-wing and progressive, at least in the west. This is not to say we don't need to change the left as a broad movement, but I disagree that young men are shifting right. I'd at least need strong evidence for it to be truly concerned.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/06/24 09:53 PM
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They warn that the registration of this foundation in the terms in which it has been registered “can generate confusion in society since it appropriates concepts that are inherent to the gendered violence suffered by women and that, how should the Vice President know Second, it has a structural and cultural basis and is in no way comparable to the concept of domestic violence.” Presented without comment
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/05/24 08:32 AM
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It is also just alienation under late stage capitalism. When you never speak to your neighbors and never interact with the people who live around you, since you just hop in your car every day as soon as you leave your house, of course you'll be more paranoid. This same thing in men seems to more often tend towards anger or depression, but I think it's still the same cause.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/05/24 03:24 PM
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Shit, I've had an ex who put me through a lot of emotional and physical abuse. For me, the emotional aspect was more traumatic long term, and I can feel it affecting my relationships with women (platonic and romantic) to this day. The trope of a woman exploiting a man's insecurities to control/belittle him is in this way similar to women who have faced SA from a man. It can put a serious mark on any future relationship you have and reinforce the negative social conditioning. (Women being taught …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/05/24 03:23 PM
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I get your point, but to be fair, Muslim people are most often effectively just judged for their race. If you appear Middle Eastern, none of the islamophobes will care that you are actually agnostic or whatever.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/05/24 05:53 AM
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You know what's a much stronger predictor of being a violent criminal then being a man? Being poor. "Would you rather be in the woods with a bear or a poor person" has a strange ring to it, doesn't it?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/05/24 06:42 AM
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It is kind of like very intellectual sounding victim blaming. The trope I'm describing is when someone describes e.g. all the problems women face as systemic issues we have to have systemic solutions for, and all the issues men face as individual failings men need to correct.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/04/24 06:23 AM
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This is a fallacy that needs a name, where someone conflates systemic issues with individual failings depending on what suits their narrative.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/04/24 03:33 PM
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Court double standards are a very big one in my opinion. Divorce court is the classic example, but even in criminal court, men face harsher sentences for the same crimes.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/02/24 03:31 PM
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Thanks! I'll look more into it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/12/23 10:48 PM
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This is actually an example of a fairly common rhetorical tactic, that I don't know the name of, tho it probably has one. It is portraying one person as a member of the group, and the other as an individual, depending on which is advantageous to you. If your rhetorical goal is that men are never victims, this is a great tool: In your insecurity example, the men are individuals, women are a class. Women's situation is analysed through the lense of how large societal structures affect large groups…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/12/23 09:34 PM
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Society has deemed that women are not as strong physically as men Which is asinine by the way, statistical averages don't matter in individual cases.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/11/23 08:04 PM
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It's case by case obviously, but at least online, that is definitely somewhat true.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/07/23 08:36 PM
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I really don't like how up in the air the "definition" of creepy is. It's even shittier for neurodivergent men: a lot of consent in sexual context is non-verbal, and they have a lot of trouble reading them. Which wouldn't be a problem, if there were "rules" to follow, but there aren't, if you never do anything to women that could be perceived as creepy, without their explicit, verbal consent, you'll probably never talk to any.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/07/23 06:08 AM
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Yea, I hand washed stuff like that (minus boiling the water) at my grandma's for a week once. She had a very old washing machine, it broke down, and she had pretty bad wrist pain then. It was horrid, that was some insane labor. We still use clotheslines here today, AFAIK in America a drying machine is more common. But that is by far not the hard part.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/07/23 03:57 PM
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Excellently put. I often do laundry while working from home - putting in a load during a 5 minute break, then hanging them to dry in the last 10 minutes of my lunch break. According to this study, apparently that would be an extra 3 hours of labor for what is 15 minutes of actively doing something, so by waking up at 8, by the time it's 12, I've worked around 7 hours. Absolute madness.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/07/23 06:45 AM
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True, I do think men are probably underrepresented in SA stats, if for nothing else, then that there is a huge pressure against going to the authorities with it. Women are pressured against reporting it as well, but wider society tends to view them as a victim if they do, which is rarely the case with men. However, SA is definitely a gendered issue. Rainn is I think a reliable enough source for the gendered split in sexual assault victims. If we accept, as we should, that homelessness is a gende…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 06:42 PM
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Oh, sexual harassment is not exclusively a women's issue, what I meant was, it definitely has a gendered component. If a woman is sexually harassed, it's safe to say, that if he was a man in that same situation, it would most likely be a different story, either it wouldn't happen, or it would substantially different. It's like the one violent crime where women are most of the victims by a huge margin. I agree, that male victims of SA face many problems in current society, but the relevant part a…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 06:34 PM
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I've been informed in another comment, that kyriarchy is probably the word I'm looking for. After reading feminist theory, I do feel like patriarchy describes an existing structure, that is worth talking about, but I agree, that it is probably a loaded term today.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 09:35 AM
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I haven't, no, but English is a second language for me, so I'm still learning. Thanks for the clarification!
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 09:07 AM
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I agree that it is probably a widely spread phenomena, I never noticed anything in IT specifically that would lead to this being more widespread. (maybe because of less women in the field, there are less women to provide the type of mentorship most women want? Just a theory) It is just the field I'm familiar with, that's why I talked about that. I agree with your take mansplaining as well. I could be convinced that talking over to people in a condescending way is done by men more often, but sayi…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 08:41 AM
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I do think patriarchy is a good model of a societal structure. The problem is, most people, and this includes like 99% of feminists don't read theory. Patriarchy is not made for the benefit of men by men. Patriarchy is made for the benefit of patriarchs, by patriarchs. Most patriarchs are men, due to historical reasons. But e.g. the average working class man, barely scraping by paycheck to paycheck was never on track to being a patriarch, ever. The fact that most patriarchs are men does have som…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 08:36 AM
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I don't understand exactly what you are asking. There is a huge problem with (I'm generalizing a bit) women/the mainstream narrative not really understanding men's mental health. For example, mainstream therapy seems to be much less effective for men, compared to women. Basically the whole premise of it is that men like to bond thruexperience and work and adversity as opposed to small talk and emotionalexchange, at least that’s the way I see it Anecdotally, this feels true to me, and it may be a…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 07:09 AM
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AFAIK, no, but I'm no legal expert. My only reference here is, that at any wedding I've been to, usually after the priest does the whole ceremony, there is a separate, shorter ceremony with a government official, that's where they sign the marriage for the civil papers. My parents both divorced, and both remarried, and the second time, they both only had the government official part, without the whole church+priest shebang, because you know, divorcees getting remarried, not that easy to find a p…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/05/23 06:52 AM
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Same, I honestly make pretty good money for my age, and where I live, but as soon as you add another person to that, and especially if you add kids, the pressure to make more money grows exponentially. I'm 23, if I were to live my life alone, I could probably reach my "end goal" salary in a couple of years, by 30 at most, and then as my salary grows beyond that, I can cut down my hours worked. That is not the situation if you have people depending on you, you always need to make more.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/05/23 07:19 AM
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The divorce laws in my country are very, very rough. I'd be up for a "cultural/religious marriage", where you do the whole church, party shebang, without signing some paperwork to make the government involved in my relationship, but that's it. There is also the issue of the economy going to shit, it does mean you have to be extra careful with signing anything that may result in losing half your personal assets down the line. Especially since living in uncertain economic times will probably put a…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/05/23 07:11 AM
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Thanks
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/04/23 08:36 AM
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May I ask what CBT is in this context? English is not my first language, and I doubt it is computer based training, which is the meaning of the acronym I know.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/04/23 09:51 PM
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I have friends who have struggled with suicidality in the past, and all of them have seeked help from mental health professionals. The stigma around therapy is not as big an issue for men as many think, in my opinion, especially not for the younger generations. How expensive it is is a big problem, but since it can be attended basically in secret, and most younger people are encouraging you go, I don't think having the opportunity, but just not wanting to is a big enough factor to explain away m…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/04/23 10:14 AM
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Frankly, I don't know if there is a solution. Most men are super dependent on women's approval. And women's approval and attraction can't be negotiated, even if we agree that they should be attracted to more sensitive guys. Maybe if men drew more self worth from things other then women's attraction to them? I don't really see another way to attack the problem, because no matter how many women say it's okay for men to cry, if they are still not attracted to the men who do. Which is not women's fa…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/04/23 02:25 PM
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More feminine men are really shunned by society at large. For that reason, advocacy/normalisation for them does help. But a lot of the online left/progressive sphere went too far in the other direction, where they view masculine men as inherently bad. On principle, forcing men to all be masculine and forcing men to all be feminine is literally no different at all.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/03/23 07:38 AM
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Sure, but splitting along gender lines is no less arbitrary.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/01/23 09:48 AM
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It affects your life expactancy more then your gender for sure.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/01/23 01:43 PM
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I'd offer an alternative to splitting this along gender lines: retirement age based on the kind of labor you do. I don't see any reason why I couldn't keep programming till relatively old age, but someone who breaks their back laying bricks should get an earlier retirement. Gender has little to do with it, imho.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/01/23 10:10 AM
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I agree, they are largely a negative influence on society today, at least abrahamic religions for sure. However, you can find a much wider variety of political opinions in a religion, then a political ideology. People from anywhere between left wing liberals to fascists will identify as Christians, but find me one georgist who is vastly different from the "average" georgist on taxation policy.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/01/23 12:27 PM
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My main point, which I may not have articulated very well, (for which I apologize) is that you can draw much more inference from something like a political party or ideology a certain person associates with, then their religion. So a direct parallel between them is not really accurate, in my opinion.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/01/23 12:21 PM
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You can be, say, christian without belonging to any christian organization. Also, being of a certain religion is much more pre-determined by your upbringing, and country of birth, then, say belonging to a certain political party. I don't think you can't make any inferences from someone's religion, but it's not as strong an indicator as their political stance for sure, so I don't think it's correct to draw such strong parallels between them.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/01/23 12:01 PM
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I get where you are coming from, but even tho religions, at least abrahamic ones, are definitely political ideologies, you can't draw a 1:1 parallel between them, and say belonging to a certain party. Religion is much more determined by your birthplace and upbringing, then any political ideology, and when you come from a country where you could literally be killed for renouncing the faith that you inherited from your parents, your religion is as closed to pre-determined as it can be.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/01/23 11:59 AM
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Most usage of it I have seen is just the toxic masculinity narrative rebranded. E.g. Being stoic is toxic masculinity => Showing your emotions is positive masculinity ​ There are probably ways to use the phrase correctly, but if we reject the idea of toxic masculinity, we should reject this too, I don't think it's different on principle.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/01/23 11:20 AM
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Even these are not normalized. Don't say to me, that if a Brock Lesner looking dude is sitting across from you on the metro in a skirt, you wouldn't find it weird. These are superficial, performative signs of progress in an area that only matters to quite priviledged men. I'd wager my salary, that most of us care more about 99% of men's issues, then wearing a skirt.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/11/22 07:57 AM
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From my experience working jn the tech field, I don't see the discrimination, at least not when the company is younger, or pretty big. Maybe at small companies, full of old dudes, who started in the 80s, yea, I could see that. But at startups, and the more trendy multis, you are more likely to hear that "we are so happy, that x% of our new hires are women". Most HR people, and headhunters are women as well, so the bias could only come in on the tech interview, where a lot of the time, the person…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/10/22 08:04 PM
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I've had this argument once with someone in relation to standing up against a mugger in a street fight. She said that well, the guy has a better chance against the attacker. I've been doing martial arts all my life, I've trained with professional fighters, and also people who teach self defense stuff to cops for a living. If the other guy has a knife, and you don't have training, it doesn't matter, if you're man, woman, or goddamn Hulk Hogan, he is gonna stab you, you're gonna panic, he is gonna…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/10/22 07:42 PM
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I think this is at least in part the "human beings vs human doings" thing. Women have a baseline respect in society just for being people, but men are only respected for their actions. Of course, this means a woman can never really be invisible, even if she wants, and she has a harder time being valued only for her own merits, (glass ceiling) but men have no way of being valued for anything else. Just look at the stories we tell kids. What you can explain as damsel in distress, you can just as w…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/10/22 07:38 PM
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My first entrypoint into the identity politics side of the internet was atheist youtube, and then early lefty youtube. Gamer gate, ironically, was the first time I even watched content from "the other side".
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/10/22 01:24 PM
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That slate star codex blogpost is so rough. But in a good way, like it puts into words what I couldn't for years. ​ I myself have gone to a psychologist with wanting to be chemically castrated. I can even relate to wishing I was born gay or asexual. ​ I only know one trans guy personally, but he has talked to me about sexual frustration. How it became so all consuming, that he feared he "overdid" the testosterone. He was kind of relieved, and kind of scared when I told him that that's how almost…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/10/22 01:22 PM
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In addition to the other comments, I'd like to being up the Order of the White Feather, a feminist movement that was founded to make women shame men who didn't participate in WW1. Feminism has never helped men, not even historically.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/09/22 04:52 AM
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Wasn't there a study somewhere about how boys being talented at math correlates with less ability in other fields, which is not the case for girls? This could also be a big factor, and I noticed it on myself too: I was very good at math, physics, and computer stuff in school already, programming simple videogames from ages 12, and writing mods for games I liked by 14. I always had 5s (edit: where I live, grades go 1-5, 1 being you failed, 5 the best) from math and physics, and so did most of the…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/09/22 11:30 AM
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This math example infuriates me. There was a study about how mathematical ability in men correlates heavily with their lack of ability in other fields, which is not the case for women. In short, if you are a guy who is good at math, that's likely all you have. Definitely my case, I was good at math, horrible at literature, even worse at all arts, biology and chemistry - forget it, I was learning English for 8 years by the time I had a usable level of knowledge on the language. The girls who were…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/09/22 11:20 AM
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Whenever women bring up Chris Hemsworth as an example of a sexy man, who is not all roided out, I feel like I want to hang myself. Rule of thumb for people, from an amateur gymrat, who has countless amateur body builder, and personal trainer friends: if you see a man in a movie, and he is at all presented as "muscled and strong", 99% he is on roids. I've had women tell me about an image of Gordon Ryan, one of the world's best grapplers, a beast of a man, elite athlete, that "yea, he is muscular,…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/09/22 09:14 AM
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The trope of the man trying to take the arm when given an inch is almost to the level of fetishization in media, particularly teen media, where men are routinely portrayed as some kind of sex crazed rape machine waiting to be triggered This is the exact type of false narrative that is used to justify sexist stuff like enforced burka wearing for women. I have never raised a hand to a woman, barely ever raised my voice to a woman, and the only time I "made a move" on a woman was with my current gi…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/09/22 09:11 AM
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The "sexy man" is usually based on actions more then looks. ​ Where it is based on looks, it is unattainable. Most people have 0 clue about how steroid use looks, and how rampant it is in Hollywood. Most men can only gain around 20 kgs of muscles maximum, over a lifetime naturally. For abs, most men need sub 10% body fat percentage. That is not a realistic standard for most men, unless they use steroids, or devote most of their life to it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/09/22 09:07 AM
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It's not like you can't argue with the PUA ideology, (cause it is an ideology, as much as people insist it's just a method, it forms models of how the world at large, and society works, it's an ideology) while acknowledging some of it's method's do what they say they do. ​ It's not a good ideology. It's a shitty one, that makes both men and women miserable long term. But yea, many women feel it makes them look bad, that some of these tactics work on them, which is weird. We don't consider titill…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/08/22 07:39 PM
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They know they are going to get slapped with that label anyway, so why not embrace it, and revel in the power that comes with it? This is where a lot of the PUA type stuff comes from. I always say, that I think what they give is terrible advice, but it is working on a level. It's not gonna make you happy, or have a good relationship, but it is gonna get you laid. If it was truly as horrible an advice, as some people like to pretend, it would not be a successful industry. If all you care about is…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/08/22 07:12 PM
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A lot of this discussion, at least online, was about the girls vs boys memes. You know, how a girl with a time machine will go back to see her grandmother as a kid, or something else, a normal thing, and a boy will go back to try to stop Julius Caesar from being assassinated, or whatever. I saw many people get offended at these memes here on Reddit, cause "what, so women are boring, and men are so funny and quirky", but I disagree with that narrative. These jokes work on the contrast between the…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/08/22 06:52 AM
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I've seen the least ammount of domestic violence stat too, for gay men. I'd theorize that that's at least partially due to how we raise people in most western cultures. Physical violence in any kind if relationship is much more acceptable if it come from a woman. If a man raises a hand to a woman, it is near universally viewed as evil, and stopped, even at a young age. A woman slapping someone doesn't get the same level of response. So when two men get into a relationship both think "I can't rai…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/08/22 06:32 AM
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I work in IT, so lot of real nerdy dudes with shit physique. Even when someone like that bites the bullet and shaves, yea, they look bad bald, but balding? Even worse.
/r/TheRedPill31/03/21 11:02 PM
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People in general, men, or women, are rarely honest about what they want in a relationship. TRP was a big eye opener for me in realizing what I even want from a girlfriend. (Namely, be interesting, have a similar sex drive to mine, and leave me alone when I wanna be alone) The real enigma in FDS, I think, is that it's not really a strategy sub, more an "expectations" sub. On TRP, most posts are on working out, fashion, social skills, etc., making yourself more attractive. On FDS, it's mostly jus…
/r/TheRedPill31/03/21 11:01 PM
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Honestly, full head of hair is probably better then bald for most men, but shaved is totally 100x better then the awkward, balding accountant look. By the time you notice you are losing hair, and try to get shit to slow it down, you are probably too late, or close to it.
/r/TheRedPill31/03/21 10:56 PM
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Anger as motivation is like eating sugar, or burning paper. It is powerful, and easy, but it burns quickly. I know your situation, I lived through some very tough bullying in high school, but only a couple years later it was not something that I ever thought about, and if I did, it didn't fuel me the same way it did back then. ​ So don't rely on your anger to motivate you, but do use it when it comes along. I work out harder then any other time when I am furious, but if I only worked out when I …
/r/TheRedPill30/03/21 11:38 AM
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India is the size of a continent, and the culture is very different in differebt regions.
/r/PussyPass23/02/21 02:39 PM
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Maybe, but I think the ammount of simping will simply isolate them. That, and the top 1% of men still banging them every once in a while. No tinderella, who has 15 orbiters just waiting for the chance to pay for her meal is gonna think that she is not good enough. She will adjust, yea, but I don't think it will be as radical a collapse as you predict. I do hope you are right, tho!
/r/TheRedPill20/02/21 10:07 AM
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I disagree. Most women won't notice, or care about their impact on the bigger picture. Do I notice, or care about how I impact dating for other men with the expectations I set in women? Hardly
/r/TheRedPill20/02/21 08:02 AM
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It also clamps down on anyone not being a traditional gentleman the same way. You are expected to slap a ring on the girl, be all romantic, and provide all her needs, or you are just as shunned as the high school thot, who half the guys had, and most deny having.
/r/TheRedPill20/02/21 08:00 AM
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We have the cultural rot of boomers from the soviet era, who still can't move on, and just below them, boomers who are literal neo nazis. (And I mean neo nazis, the group my father wss part of was not some dogwhistling "preserve white culture" thing, but wear the Third Reich's imperial eagle, chant nazi salutes, and go around beating up gypsy kids and gay young men, 10 against 1, like some fucking cowards) Don't idolize Eastern Europe. It's a different kind of shit here, but it's still shit.
/r/TheRedPill20/02/21 07:59 AM
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Don't idolize Eastern Europe, it's not that good. We still have thots, and still have simps. It is less accepted, but being a "gentleman", paying on every date, and slapping a ring on the lady before you get any action are normal things too. It's really not that different with the younger generations. I know girls here who have banged, or tried to bang half their male friends. Hell, I know girls like that back from catholic high school. Some are smart enough to lock down some simp when they are …
/r/TheRedPill20/02/21 07:55 AM
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Nah, man. Happens here in Eastern Europe too. I know a woman who was like 19 dating a 35-40 year old serbian mobster hitman. She is now married to Beta Billy, and still gossips about how masculine and hot the hitman was. (He was convicted years ago, and killed in prison. Had connections to a Serbian gang who kidnapped women. Real stand up guy, that one)
/r/TheRedPill20/02/21 07:50 AM
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I'm from Eastern Europe, and yea, shopping for keto is easy, if you don't go to big multinational corporations
/r/TheRedPill20/02/21 07:30 AM
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