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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
18	What theory have you read?	discussion	EditorOk1044	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/08/25 08:50 PM

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2	When you see it, you'll shit bricks. Maybe it was just a typo on your part, but you quoted me as paraphrasing bell hooks as saying that men need to be centered more ON feminism, when I said IN feminism. That being said, I do hope that you read her, and be charitable with her even as you extend a critical eye. She’s very sex negative, which is my biggest critique, that really comes out in the middle of the book. There’s a lot to disagree with but if you read someone writing something that long and don’t find points of disagreement, …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	02/02/26 07:44 PM
0	When you see it, you'll shit bricks. At the same time we need to understand that it is the women who need the movement the most. So it's okay that men are not centered here. […] There's a REALLY good book I prefer you guys to read. I think it can help a lot of the "leftists" here. It is called "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love" by bel hooks. Bell hooks says in the first chapter of The Will To Change that men need to be centered more in feminism. In her own words: When contemporary feminism was at its most intense, man…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/01/26 08:38 AM
1	Misandry Kills I’ve been told these harms are all caused by “patriarchy” or “toxic masculinity” - that men did this to themselves. Patriarchy and toxic masculinity don’t originate with men. You’re strawmanning feminism. There are dumb and misandrist, hate filled feminists out there. But if you actually sit down and read the people doing the hard thinking, you’ll find a lot less of that bullshit than you would with the rank and file people who just wear feminism as a costume to let themselves gain victim status…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/01/26 08:26 AM
1	Any Book Reccomendations? She was a paid consultant for the Cato Institute iirc.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/10/25 02:11 PM
1	Any Book Reccomendations? Nothing. The people here are obsessed with being victims of feminism, so every feminist has to be a misandrist who says nothing but hateful things about men. The idea that they might actually read bell hooks and find out that she was extremely sympathetic towards men is right out, because if they do then they'll find themselves alienated by the group here.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/10/25 02:05 PM
1	Any Book Reccomendations? Bell Hooks talks about how men mask because they're actually all just monsters inside. Can you find me quotes, please? bell hooks talks about how all men are pushed into intensely masking all the time and how much of a burden that is. I have read her works on men and I have not read anything by her that talks about how they're actually all just monsters inside. You talk a lot of shit and you never back it up. I think you are lying. I don't think you know you're lying, but you have a lot psycholo…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/10/25 02:04 PM
1	Any Book Reccomendations? That is not a book.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/10/25 01:54 PM
1	Any Book Reccomendations? The Will To Change by bell hooks.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/10/25 01:54 PM
1	What theory have you read? Second, the Marxist understanding of history is very faulty as the idea that proletariats caused revolutions was false. French revolution was caused by the bourgeoisie This was part of the Marxist analysis of history and class warfare. The Aristocracy and the clergy are classes as well as the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The Bourgeoisie overthrew the aristocracy which administered feudalism and then they instituted capitalism. The Proletariat would overthrow the Bourgeoisie which administere…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	02/10/25 06:38 PM
1	What theory have you read? Even if I assume you're right, and I learn to accept that I'm really deserving of nothing in this world due to systemic power. Who said that? Why would you try to make yourself smaller, or turn down jobs, or socially isolate yourself? If something is hurting you, stop it. The subject of your own life is and should always be you - if some ideology is trying to persuade you to make something else the subject of your life and convince you to cut off parts of yourself for its sake, toss it out. The …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	21/08/25 09:15 PM
1	What theory have you read? I've actually read the entirety of the book that I'm citing from, and it's not hateful. I'm not a big fan of the middle chapters but the rest of it is great reading. I did not just "go ahead and believe her." She's a writer. The ideas she writes down is what there is to believe about her. It's there on the page. You, however, lack a single citation. And your own style of writing, your word choice, and the intent behind it, betray a deep hatred laying behind your own ideas and motivations. Theory…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	21/08/25 09:06 PM
1	What theory have you read? Everyone is an oppressor. Power is co-extensive through the social body. The only reason a dictator is allowed authoritarian power is because millions of people at every step of the way believe and consent to the systems and propositions that say that he has power. He doesn't actually have any more power than he as an individual possesses; it is the collective decisions of everyone participating in that system that form the dictatorship. If everyone in the United States forgot that the President…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	21/08/25 02:47 AM
0	What theory have you read? Because women liberated themselves. But liberating women did not liberate men. They have to wake up and do that themselves, which is what theory is important for.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	21/08/25 02:35 AM
0	What theory have you read? Again, this is why an understanding of where we came from and how things became the way they are is necessary. I think it's obvious that men in the first world today are having issues because they are being trained for social roles that no longer exist for the most part (patriarchs). Becoming a man is a massively traumatizing process that precludes them from other ways of being. In the wake of women's liberation, men have to do a lot of analysis and legwork if they want to change and become some…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/08/25 10:35 PM
-4	What theory have you read? You're demonstrating the exact myopia that feminism is. Being willfully blind to the fact that men are still the oppressors of women in most of the world (it's not women running the cartels in Mexico, or holding state or individual power in the Middle East, etc.). The fact that this is true does not mean that men are on a broader scale caught up in a system that feminism would call patriarchy, and queer theory might term reproductive futurity, that tells them the only way to earn love and accept…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/08/25 05:45 PM
-1	What theory have you read? And I think you're displaying a very poor knowledge of bell hooks if that's all that you think of her. Pray tell what you think is sexist or disagreeable in the quote I posted. I care not for "theory" in that proponents of "theory" consistently use any intellectual means they can to excuse hate and bigotry. People will use whatever is at hand to do that and always have. Tools can be used for more than one thing.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/08/25 05:35 PM
1	What theory have you read? Okay, but this illiteracy is exactly what I'm talking about. What you're discussing is well trod ground in critical theory. For instance, in the 1974 essay The Minimum Definition of Intelligence by the Berkeley philosophy collective For Ourselves, they say: Whenever a system of ideas is structured with an abstraction at the centre — assigning a role or duties to you for its sake — this system is an ideology. An ideology is a system of false consciousness in which you no longer function as the su…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/08/25 05:24 PM
10	What theory have you read? In Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire argues that the only way to empower oppressed groups is to help them develop their critical consciousness, helping them see the dynamics of the societal structures which uphold their oppression and enabling them to build their own pathway out of it. He elucidates how the pathways to solutions to oppressive dynamics (the "limit-acts" which break us out of "limit situations") are often obscured by the reality frameworks oppressed peoples are cond…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/08/25 08:52 PM
2	What theory have you read? As a side note, I've noticed a strong resistance towards embracing or reading feminist theory here. But I think without a firm understanding of women's issues you cannot create an egalitarian movement that will liberate both men and women. bell hooks elucidated in her feminist study of men, The Will To Change, that feminism as a movement made a consistent choice to ignore the issues facing men or consider that any movement to end patriarchy must necessarily include them in the fight: When contem…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/08/25 08:51 PM
1	Concern around a particular type of criticism of male disposability Morality doesn't exist. It's not part of the world, it's sets of beliefs that we make up or have imprinted on us, but good and evil don't exist outside of our imaginations and the stories we tell ourselves. It's just a pseudo-religious system. Joan Didion wrote in her 1960s essay On Morality: I want to be quite obstinate about insisting that we have no way of knowing—beyond that fundamental loyalty to the social code—what is “right” and what is “wrong,” what is “good” and what “evil.” I dwell so…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/06/25 12:16 AM