RedCascadian Archive

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4	An Interesting tumblr conversation about ale undersexualization and how it affects the discussion around female oversexualization Ah, yeah. Basically unintended consequences emerging in a gendered way. Kind of like how pressures and incentives encourage and reward a lot of the toxic masculinity that manifests in... well higher status careers. Humans respond to incentives and we're collectively smart enough to create highly complex incentive structures. We're also dumb enough to incentivize really stupid shit that undermines healthy communities and individuals. Top down power structures and inequality does not create good o…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/09/22 03:58 AM
7	An Interesting tumblr conversation about ale undersexualization and how it affects the discussion around female oversexualization I think it's less society encouraging women in that direction in general and more an emergent thing of humans typically favoring the path of least resistance. Men in the past dominated early societies with the advantages of superior physical strength and not getting pregnant and patriarchal power structures emerged from that over time. With the present subject, hypocrisy in progressive spaces and movements, while there are certainly groups like FDS that really are conscious and cynical in their …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/09/22 02:08 AM
1	We have to really discuss ways to improve our movement. I think it's definitely important to call put misogyny and honestly all bigotry within our circles, online and IRL, especially if we're going to expect women to call out misandry and perpetuation of toxic masculinity in theirs. I'm a firm believer in not asking others to do what you aren't doing to the best of your ability and circumstances. To refer to a Phil Ochs song, we're all links on the chain, and breaking links off makes us weaker as a whole. Something that I do think is important is bei…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/09/22 08:44 PM
3	Mad Men--tv show I think some of the struggles some women have in dating is they want an empathetic and caring partner, but they also want a partner who meets the masculine expectations of ambition and status. And even if that doesn't always mean stabbing someone in an alley, under capitalism it means committing oneself to either the cut throat politics of corporate America, or dominating and exploiting others as a capitalist. But a man can't claim to be compassionate if he's also willing to lay off thousands of…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/09/22 08:19 PM
4	Mad Men--tv show Reminds me of the Bill Burr bit about white women cutting to the front of the line with the woke movement after spending the last few centuries "rolling around in the blood money" as he put it.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/09/22 07:53 PM
16	An Interesting tumblr conversation about ale undersexualization and how it affects the discussion around female oversexualization Unfortunately most of the feminist subs are overrun by a combo of radlibs and tankies which are both pretty reactionary with their gender politics, it's just a flipped script. The example I go to is fetishization. Mu first sexual experience was with an Asian international student who was very much focused on the fact that I'm tall, white and have blue eyes. I was being physically objectified. And it felt awesome. And trying to get a lot of women to understand the difference is hard. I can absolu…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/09/22 07:26 PM
1	How does misandry hurt men in the same ways misogyny hurts women? The number one way I'd say is through apathy. You know how conservatives tend to not give a shit about gay or trans issues until their son or daughter comes out of the closet? A lot, not all, but a lot, don't really even think about what happens to men who aren't the most privileged until something impacts a close friend or relative in a dramatic way. It's just not even on their radar.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/09/22 07:30 PM
-2	In my personal opinion, I don't think current feminism is left wing. I'd argue that anarchism is already de facto feminist in that much of the same things feminist theory argues for, namely the elimination of hierarchies of gender.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/09/22 07:15 PM
7	should we be attaking feminism? Or just misandry? The big divide I would say is between liberal/white feminism and Marxist feminism. Even if both utilize intersectional analysis, the former tends to chuck class analysis, it also starts to get shaky on race analysis once white women find themselves under the microscope. I don't think it's a coincidence that liberal feminism seems mostly concerned with things that only impact the professional-managerial class (PMC's) because they don't really care that much about those who aren't their class peer…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/09/22 06:58 PM
1	Why cheating is now a good thing If you're getting angry at morally neutral language from a research paper then you've either got some heavy, preloaded biases or you don't know how writing a research paper works. Look, being mad at women who cheat is justified. Getting mad at the woman in the article who tried to justify her cheating is also justified. But acting like the article and research is trying to normalize infidelity is uncharitable at best and dishonest at worst.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	26/08/22 12:29 PM
11	Why cheating is now a good thing I'd say a better way to describe it is this. We live in a heavily gendered society. Shitty behavior is going to express itself in gendered way a lot of the time. Basically, men and women can get away with different expressions of shittiness, so different types of shittiness will be more heavily associated with men or women. A man can often get away with bullishness that a woman couldn't, a woman can weaponize tears or sympathy in ways that would completely undermine a man's perceived masculinity…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	25/08/22 10:13 PM
5	Why cheating is now a good thing I didn't interpret the article as saying "now cheating is good." It used morally neutral language because it was quoting a research paper which should be devoid of tone, specific, and as dry as -Twitter reference goes here- There was that one woman who admitted to having lots of affairs and tried to justify it. But the conclusion was "now that we know this, we can think of better ways to address it than committing infidelity." The article was more neutral than I like regarding the woman who seem…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	25/08/22 10:05 PM
2	People want men to open up about their mental health, but when the minute they do, or want to, they get dismissed. No I mean "acting like a stereotypical incel" in the same way I mean "don't act like a conservative stereotype of an SJW" when calling out racism or misogyny. Basically don't be shrill. Be calm and even tempered. And when I mean don't "not all men" its more read the room. Or more gracefully tie in the male experience around the issue to make clear you're not changing the subject, but approaching the same problem from the perspective of male lived experience. Rhetorical framing matters, especiall…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/08/22 07:34 PM
5	The demonization of sexually frustrated men Ehh, I'd argue TERF's aren't really feminist, just conservative. Their entire view of gender is an essentialist one, like most second wave feminists. My main concern is the man-bashing of second wave feminism is reasserting itself very strongly in a lot of places when for awhile it seemed there was finally some progress in rolling it back. But then it felt like overnight there was a surge of hardline misandry getting peddled in dating subs and leftist subs. Then we have to ask another question. …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	18/08/22 07:28 PM
16	People want men to open up about their mental health, but when the minute they do, or want to, they get dismissed. First we need to strive to be better about it ourselves, both as men and individually. So that means being supportive to men(and women and nonbinary) people in our lives. That way when we call women(and other men) in progressive spaces out, we're doing so with the moral high ground of practicing what we preach. And by call out I don't mean "well what about men?" When a womans issue is being discussed. I mean if Brad or Becky says some unfair shit about a man battling depression or neurodivergenc…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	18/08/22 07:14 PM
2	“Privilege” is more grey than black and white Let's see, not getting pregnant is a big biological inequality that turns into a lot of social benefits, we don't fight against preconceived notions that we aren't suitable for leadership roles, our genitals aren't the targets of Fundementalist Christian lunatics, no traditional attitude that we have a "place" in domestic servitude to another sex. There are drawbacks and social expectations as well, and like I said, the big ticket privileges have race and status as factors as well. Gotta be part…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	20/05/22 03:17 AM
11	“Privilege” is more grey than black and white There are some definite privileges to being a man, but the big ticket stuff only kicks in at certain intersections of race, sex, neurotypicality, and class. If you don't meet those, being a man mostly means l So for example I am a cishet white man. I'm 6' tall, able bodied, and well spoken. I also grew up below the poverty line, raised by a single mkther with the precursor condition to schizophrenia (at the time misdiagnosed as bipolar), and I deal with the ADHD/anxiety/depression trifecta. The …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/05/22 10:30 PM
2	I'm so tired of being told "it's not our job to fix men's AND women's issues" from folks I'd say it's more that feminism isn't monolithic. The feminism with the loudest voice is the form most palatable to the wealthy and the professional-managerial class. To them the only men (and women) who actually count are their socioeconomic peers. They'll pay lip service to the needs of women working in warehouses but give only slightly more fucks about them than they do about the men working next to them. More Marxist inspired forms have the analytical tool box and theory/arguments to point o…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	09/04/22 09:15 PM
-1	Wanna Be Adulterers Got Played Dude, PA's are disliked for being manipulative scumbags who use shit like "negging" to try and zero in on women insecure enough to sleep with them. Get off the red pill, stay away from incel subs, and sort your head space out.	/r/PussyPassDenied	28/05/21 01:55 PM
2	Gender Studies Career Ironically the people who whine the most about women not matching them on tinder are the ones who whine the most anytime someone says white privilege or male privilege. Same deal with the guys who whine about how "political" dating is getting. 9/10 they're a MAGA hat wearing conservative pissed off that liberal college girls want nothing to do with them.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/04/21 04:31 PM
0	Gender Studies Career Left wing extremism isn't being treated the same because leftists don't want to create an ethnostate. That's a far right position. You get the occasional dipshit making a "mayocide" joke. That's about it. No one seriously talking about the need to eliminate white people. Rather the need to break down hierarchies of class, race and gender, which requires being aware of actual, material conditions on the ground. Not pretending that the ideal is the material reality.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/04/21 04:28 PM
1	Gender Studies Career You can leave Detroit. Though it might be hard if you're poor. You can't stop being a person of color.	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/04/21 02:58 PM
1	Gender Studies Career They are things. It doesn't mean getting handed everything on a silver platter, it means fewer bullshit hoops to jump through. There are a few bullshit hoops associated with being male(far fewer than women deal with), but none of significance with being white. To put it in game terms, middle-class cishet neurotypical white male gets to play the game of life on normal difficulty. Start tossing in things like minority status, neurodivergence and being a woman, gay or trans and things start getting…	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/04/21 02:57 PM
1	Gender Studies Career So, that's actually the goal of intersectional analysis. The white guilt shitnis counterproductive and generally pushed by individuals looking for woke points. Part of the problem is academic language is meant for academics to communicate complex concepts to other academics. Toxic masculinity is a perfect example. People on the street hear it, think they're being told masculinity is toxic. When in fact it's describing a phenomenon where some male gender norms are or can become toxic, not that ma…	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/04/21 02:26 PM
2	Gender Studies Career Yup. And people need to better understand how things like critical theory and intersectionality work before throwing accusations at people. I was a dumb but well intentioned white guy turned dumb and pissed off white guy by people who wanted to be woker than thou but didn't really understand this stuff fully. Then actually hearing people who had made their careers studying this stuff explain this in a way that didn't act like I was trash for not knowing already made me go "oh... yeah that makes …	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/04/21 02:22 PM
1	Gender Studies Career Yeah, I really hate when people try and push the white guilt angle. I'm white, and a socialist, and I don't feel guilty about being white, and I don't want other people to feel guilty for being white. Guilt breeds toxicity. I want people to understand that yeah, they do have privileges, and a pot of them stem from past injustices. Those injustices aren't their fault. But we owe it to each other and our children to clean up the messes previous generations left for us, even if it makes us uncomfor…	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/04/21 01:52 PM
1	Gender Studies Career You can thank a mix of liberals stripping class consideration from intersectional analysis, and a lot of dipshits who took one gender studies class. If they were applying the analysis properly they'd know that privilege is a lot more complex where gender is involved, and that while racial privilege is a lot more cut and dry (there are no real drawbacks to being white, there are some situational ones, but they're more irritating than serious). Gender however is a much more tangled mess. And gets …	/r/PussyPassDenied	04/04/21 01:46 PM