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| 43 | What does being "left wing" mean to you in regards to male issues and advocacy? | discussion | Jealous-Factor7345 | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/11/24 07:27 PM |
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| 0 | Male-Only Draft in the United StatesYes none of the things I mentioned exclusively affect men. But they all affect men more than the selective service, which was my point. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/12/25 10:42 PM |
| -6 | Male-Only Draft in the United StatesLiterally anything that negatively affects men. The manosphere, the minimum wage, homelessness, drug ods and suicides, the negative mental health consequences of social media. Heck, the loss of reproductive rights for women negatively affect men more than registering for the selective service. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/12/25 04:37 PM |
| -17 | Male-Only Draft in the United StatesI'm not saying you shouldn't advocate for this. If it speaks to you by all means. But there are about a zillion things that I personally think are a more serious threat to the wellbeing of men than this. This is not something I intend to be putting effort into in the near term. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/12/25 06:29 AM |
| -1 | “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt: Has anyone here read this book? What do you think about it?written erotica and filmed sex are so different it would be extremely weird to include them in the same category. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/11/25 11:15 PM |
| 26 | They say patriarchy also hurts men, but if patriarchy hurts men do we really live in a patriarchal society?A lot of women and feminists are not great at understanding that just because the people in charge are men, doesn't mean men as a group are in charge. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/11/25 08:43 PM |
| 3 | Bernie Sanders on Men's issuesI think they were asking about the ad. Not the party positions on who we serve. I'll see if I can find it. That said, the who we serve page is archived here: https://archive.is/9rRI2 | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/25 06:40 PM |
| 44 | Bernie Sanders on Men's issuesSo it's definitely a mix of things. Negative generalization about a group, even if theoretically only talking about a subset of that group, will always make member of that group defensive. You see it everywhere. Almost everyone I've met will react like this, except maybe some self-hating white people (and even they often have this reaction but just suppress it). The online gender wars take this and just crank it all up to 11 in toxic feedback loop. I don't see this nearly as much in real life, b… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/25 02:03 PM |
| 79 | How do you reconcile the expectation that feminism should actively support men’s issues with the perception that male advocacy spaces never focus on issues that negatively affect women?This is a misunderstanding of the complaint. The critique is for people who think feminism is the panacea of human flourishing, that it helps literally everyone. In reality, no group can be for everyone and everything. It's just not practical. A movement that is advocating for everyone is really advocating for no one. It's right and very much OK that you pick a few topics that matter to you and then advocate for them. The issue that crops up is that all too often feminists try to police men's sp… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/10/25 05:28 PM |
| 2 | What are your thoughts on pornography and sex work?While I'm personally convinced sex work is extremely bad for everyone involved, especially the workers, I'm not convinced that it should be illegal everywhere. Like a lot of industries, it matters how and where you do it, largely because of the ancillary effects I think it's reasonable to not to want a brothel near your home or kids school, or near your own storefront that caters to the general public. If someone is discreetly making content in their home, and no one nearby can tell, then what's… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/09/25 01:37 PM |
| 1 | An excellent video on female-targeted smut. (My analysis below).I will die on the hill that reading smut is not the same thing as watching porn. The 1 to 1 comparison that is often made in male reddit subs drives me batshit. I say this as someone who both reads smut (targeted towards men) and watches porn. Anecdotally, I know plenty of women that read female erotica (including my girlfriend). While it's not my thing, I've checked these books out and they aren't the bodice ripper kind that depict abusive relationships and dark tetrad men in a positive light. … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/09/25 10:42 PM |
| 7 | How the right is harming men. But the left is doing it tooYes, he is overblown, but don't mistake your lack of exposure for lack of influence. You just aren't in the demographic. I actually meant my comment to say basically this. There's deeply concerning pipeline from "ironic" to "maybe he has a point." It also drives behavior as younger boys mimic what he's saying to get a reaction, and that's bad for them and everyone that has to interact with them, especially their female peers. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/07/25 04:27 PM |
| 21 | How the right is harming men. But the left is doing it tooAndrew Tate is mostly influencing younger boys. Like in middle school and high school. He's a lot less appealing to older men. I sort of get it. Maddox (bestpageintheuniverse) was that guy when I was in high school. Boys love the content because it's edgy and countercultural. I'm sure the degree to which they actually believe he's offering good advice varies wildly. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/07/25 01:02 PM |
| 6 | The paradox of the male loneliness epidemic.I mean feeling lonely sucks no matter what. And it's true lots of women also experience soul crushing levels of loneliness. It also seems to be true that it's getting worse for everyone. That said, by every measurable metric that isn't just self-reported feelings of loneliness, men are doing worse. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/07/25 03:02 PM |
| 11 | The paradox of the male loneliness epidemic.The other thing that always comes up is: "studies show women self- report being just as lonely as men". Which is genuinely interesting considering that by every objectively measurable metric, women have more social connections and support. This raises the obvious question: do women just need more social connections to not feel as lonely or is there some funky going on with the self-reported loneliness studies? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/07/25 01:39 PM |
| 21 | How would you say feminist/ misandrist discourse has affected your personal politics?I don't base my politics based on what assholes say on the internet. I base my politics on what I want the legislators to do (or often not do), and I base my objectives on what I think would ultimately best for everyone. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/06/25 03:10 AM |
| -6 | Anyone else get pissed when people say "the bar is low for fathers" because of how BS it is?I mean, I noticed you didn't answer my question. But my point was that it varies a ton. Lots and lots of jobs are as easy or easier. Ask any SAHM who later went back to work if they found work easier and it will give you a clue as to what is really easier. Probably more accurately than your example, since many breadwinners haven't actually experienced both scenarios. As you noted about some office jobs, being a SAHP can be very taxing. Look, I'm not trying to say that working outside the home is… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/05/25 10:49 PM |
| -8 | Anyone else get pissed when people say "the bar is low for fathers" because of how BS it is?I mean, a ton of women really really prefer to go back to work. That's super common. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/05/25 06:08 PM |
| -6 | Anyone else get pissed when people say "the bar is low for fathers" because of how BS it is?Are you married with kids? Like, you're not wrong that slaving 8-10 hours a day at a job you hate, especially a physical job, is really really tough. But lots and lots of dads have jobs that are a lot less taxing than a steel foundry worker. That's still real work, but it's often not much harder (or even less taxing depending on your kids and your own personality) than being at home with kids. If you have a young kid, or even worse, multiple very young kids, it's really really hard to actually g… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/05/25 06:02 PM |
| 1 | Anyone else get pissed when people say "the bar is low for fathers" because of how BS it is?It's possible to have this conversation while also injecting some nuance into it. Some of the problem with discussions about family dynamics online is that people take broad trends and try to apply those directly their (or someone else’s) specific relationship. IMO, broad social commentary shouldn’t be used to analyze your personal marriage and family, at least under most circumstances. My job as a father and husband isn’t to leverage my family and my kids to promote social change, but rather it… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/05/25 05:54 PM |
| 6 | The term “mansplain” isn’t just sexist hate speech, it is often also a narcissistic deflection people resort to when they feel intellectually inadequate.The nag is a great comparison, because there are absolutely women who do that. There are also men who talk down to women by explaining things. Both are now more often just used as gendered insults that attempt to shut someone up. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/05/25 04:10 AM |
| 1 | How Do You See Feminism?I don't even know what feminism is. It's frankly too broadly applied to have a real meaning anymore. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/03/25 04:55 PM |
| 65 | DNC's "Run for Office" Webpage excludes men wile Democrats struggle with getting young male supportI realized this when I looked at the DMC positions page. They are so scared of appearing to care about men as a group they won't even mildly pander to them on a few topics. We're so fucked. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/02/25 02:43 PM |
| 11 | JD Vance: "Don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man"Bernie rarely talks about woke stuff at all. Its almost all classic democratic socialist stuff. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/02/25 03:26 PM |
| 5 | Discussing gender issues--my friend wants me to abandon the 'MRA' label because they feel the movement is beyond redemption and I don't want to be guilty by association of propping up the far rightIMO labels are over-rated. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/02/25 05:18 PM |
| 3 | Skeptics lost touch with reality, blames young men's views on "loss of privilege"My skeptical hot take is that the online gender wars have created an alternate, yet increasingly manifest reality that doesn't map well onto in-person lived experience. We need to fix out media consumption and cool off the online gender wars. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/11/24 10:21 PM |
| 8 | What does being "left wing" mean to you in regards to male issues and advocacy?Fascinating. It's always wild to me how so many attacks on men from so-called progressives rely on what they would call "toxic masculinity" from anyone else. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/11/24 12:49 AM |
| 8 | What does being "left wing" mean to you in regards to male issues and advocacy?Thanks. Definitely agree with a lot of what you said here. I will say though that the elite backing Harris likely has as much to do with how volatile and unpredictable Trump is, along with the fact that his actual policy suggestions are insane. It's also true that lots of elite people backed Trump. If being the richest man in the world backing a billionaire to be president isn't "elite", I'm not sue what "elite" means anymore. Though your point about faux leftism is 100% spot on. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/11/24 11:22 PM |
| 4 | What does being "left wing" mean to you in regards to male issues and advocacy?Left wing social circles very enthusiastically specify the ways in which to NOT be a man, and it tends to revolve around traditionally masculine things. Do you have a characteristic example of this you can share? The only thing I can think of is some of my more liberal friends disgust around combat sports like MMA. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/11/24 11:18 PM |
| 3 | "These are the boys to men we want to raise-decent, respectful, compassionate American men who stand for truth, integrity and women."All fair points. Downside of a left/right paradigm is that there are lots of different dimensions to public policy that may or may not sit well within that. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/10/24 06:09 PM |
| 1 | "These are the boys to men we want to raise-decent, respectful, compassionate American men who stand for truth, integrity and women."They've tacked to right starting in 2021, and now Harris is running basically as a centrist border hawk. But if you go back to 2019 and 2020 not only were the overwhelming sentiments among democrat voters further left than ever on the border and immigration, but you so a ton of these reflected in public comments by the democratic politicians running for office. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/10/24 04:23 PM |
| 8 | "These are the boys to men we want to raise-decent, respectful, compassionate American men who stand for truth, integrity and women."There's definitely a tendency for people to react by overshooting, because they feel like it's necessary to balance out the extremism they see on the other side. The US elected a president who bragged about sexually assaulting a woman and wanted to build a wall along the Mexican border. In response, #metoo dominated the Left and the democratic party became more liberal on immigration than at any other time in history. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/10/24 10:09 PM |
| -23 | I know this will be controversial here but this is so silly 🤦♂️Has this sub always just been the spillover from mensrights? I swear there is so much right-wing and centrist POVs here. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/02/24 11:59 PM |
| 4 | Did anybody read ‘Of boys and men’ by Richard Reeves?I mean, it does seem to be the case that boys develop a bit slower, while there is also bias in schooling. His suggestion about redshirting boys is just a pragmatic way to address the problem that is relatively simple and actionable. I don't really have a problem with him suggesting it, but I do think it's a terrible idea, largely for the reasons you've outlined. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/02/24 10:09 PM |
| 1 | Why are men's problems discussed primary by Conservatives, whilst women problems prinarily by leftists?Fair. Also, in my example it's not even all hierarchies. There are always only a subset of specific ones in mind. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/02/24 01:04 AM |
| 42 | Why are men's problems discussed primary by Conservatives, whilst women problems prinarily by leftists?It's because social commentary on the left is primarily about breaking down social hierarchies and viewing social problems through the lens of oppressed/oppressor dynamics. In gender, the oppressor is men and it's a much harder sell to suggest we need to help oppressors. Not to say that there aren't thoughtful ways that folks on the left have approached the topic, but this sentiment runs deep and cuts across the left. The right is largely about upholding hierarchies, because it is believed that … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/02/24 10:34 PM |
| 2 | People go about separating feminists and traditional women from each other in a very disingenuous way. And this is harmful for male issues.Fair. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/02/24 07:13 PM |
| 2 | People go about separating feminists and traditional women from each other in a very disingenuous way. And this is harmful for male issues.This just in: women are people with individual qualities. Lol. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/02/24 06:19 PM |
| 8 | "Feminism is only seen as Misandry because it puts men on the same ground as women"My personal favorite is "all cis men" as if trans men aren't man enough to hate. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/12/23 04:40 AM |
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