Texandrawl Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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3	Harriet Harman: Ban men from running for next Labour leader The UK.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/08/26 07:38 PM
6	Harriet Harman: Ban men from running for next Labour leader If Liz Kendall or Jess Phillips or Yvette Cooper or Lisa Nandy can’t win a leadership election without excluding half the talent in the party, how could they ever be a good party leader? There’s plenty of female talent in the PLP (Rebecca Long-Bailey, Dawn Butler, Emily Thornberry, Nadia Whittome, Kate Osamor, etc) but none of them will rise to the top if these Blairite ghouls keep suppressing the left and pushing them out of the party (Zarah Sultana). This is some real 2010’s ‘more female drone…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/08/26 06:28 PM
5	UK government admits abuse victims were ignored for decades because they were boys and seen as intrinsically bad Yep, have to keep the baby machines safe so they can birth soldiers for the Reich.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	07/07/26 10:00 PM
10	UK government admits abuse victims were ignored for decades because they were boys and seen as intrinsically bad > you don't even have free speech and you can get arrested if you say something the police don't like. The UK is headed in a very authoritarian direction, with our rights to protest being curtailed (by both Tories and Labour), and the designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group setting a very dangerous precedent, but we’re not North Korea yet, far from it. You can be arrested for inciting hatred based on protected characteristics (race, religion, etc), which is actually a very specific …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	07/07/26 09:25 PM
6	As a gay man, I really don't feel as accepted. Pride seems to be more about queer femininity than queerness in general these days to me. So I made some affirmations I thought I'd share. Hope it helps someone. Just to support your observation - a friend of mine and I are on the ace spectrum, we only discovered this about each other after many years of close friendship. I think we were so guarded about it because as masc-presenting people, being openly ace freaks people out, and you become a kind of ‘un-man’ in a lot of people’s minds. This of course comes after realising that you’re different in the first place, and putting it into words. We’ve talked over the prospect of being involved in queer commu…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/07/26 03:31 AM
5	Talk about emotional labor and unpaid labor is helping capitalists > I dont thing that giving something to youre spouse or friend or community should be a zero sum game You’re right. This is the heart of mutual aid. The more you share, the more your bowl will be plentiful.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	23/05/26 02:44 AM
2	Talk about emotional labor and unpaid labor is helping capitalists I think some on this sub (myself included) are ultimately aiming for a moneyless society, and prefiguring that in relationships, families, and communities is a good thing, and the tendency you identified in your OP, to apply some kind of economic rationalisation, and commodified intimacy to our relationships, moves us further away from that.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	23/05/26 02:34 AM
5	Talk about emotional labor and unpaid labor is helping capitalists Oh man, so much good stuff here that could be expanded on. I also love seeing Bob Black mentioned. I think a lot of what you and some others here are describing would be straightforwardly called recuperation by the Situationists. What you describe as being ideologically walled off is, I think, often just an absence of ideology, with personal grievance standing there in its clothes (not that that really matters in the moment, in conversation). The original emotional labour argument was a good one…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	23/05/26 02:19 AM
19	Man I still can’t believe how acceptable misandry is I can't deny their right to be leftist, I have no such power. I think it’s worth pointing out that there’s a beautiful corollary to this - they can’t deny that you’re a leftist, despite what they may believe, they have no such power.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	06/05/26 02:27 AM
5	Stop saying "by other men!" Every feminist that I’ve talked to about conscription has told me they’re opposed to it, and them holding that position is enough to fulfil their commitment to gender equality on the issue. It’s very frustrating that algorithmic capture and constant gender based rage bait has eroded even that measly commitment. Very disappointed in Owen Jones.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	01/05/26 12:17 PM
5	Liberal feminism uses men as a scapegoat for the failures of capitalism It’s called ‘The Future – If There Is One – Is Female’ by Sally Miller Gearhart.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	24/03/26 05:07 AM
2	Liberal feminism uses men as a scapegoat for the failures of capitalism I’m just going to try to clarify anarchist positions on this because you mentioned them - When anarchists talk about being a communist/syndicalist/individualist, they are in the vast majority of cases referring to what kind of social contingency they want to structure the economic system they advocate for (mutual aid, trade unions, mutualist banking etc), it’s an overblown and easily exaggerated distinction. Most anarchists don’t view pro-social and individualist orientations as being mutually e…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	24/03/26 04:54 AM
9	I Think We Strayed Away I believe you’re here in good faith, I imagine this thread has been a bit frustrating for you, with people telling you that you don’t understand and you feeling like you’re misunderstood; what I’m about to say is intended as friendly advice. In one reply you insist that misandry isn’t systemic, in another you concede that it is, but then undermine that concession with irrelevant talk about conservatives, this is inconsistent and indicates that you don’t have a coherent argument or criticism. You…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	18/03/26 02:38 PM
21	I Think We Strayed Away I think you need to get your ideas and criticisms straight before telling the whole sub that we’re doing it wrong.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	18/03/26 01:15 PM
3	Misogyny, misandry and why one will always worsen the other beyond just retaliation logic Look, you can make the effort to see what this sub is about or you can continue to mischaracterise it and get downvoted, it’s up to you. Beyond that I don’t think continuing this conversation is going to be productive.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	06/01/26 05:07 PM
5	Misogyny, misandry and why one will always worsen the other beyond just retaliation logic I said that you asserting that this is some kind of safe space for reactionaries smacks of bad faith, and I’ll add, because to anyone who spends a little time here and isn’t blinkered by ideological dogma, it very obviously is not, this is an egalitarian space and it’s pretty aggressively modded to keep it that way.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	06/01/26 02:34 PM
4	Misogyny, misandry and why one will always worsen the other beyond just retaliation logic You’re probably right about that unfortunately. Excellent post btw, it’s a lot to think about, unpack, and integrate, but a nourishing read for being so grounded in the human-ness of these issues.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	06/01/26 03:18 AM
7	Misogyny, misandry and why one will always worsen the other beyond just retaliation logic Your comment was likely downvoted because you were so ‘overly pessimistic’ that your mischaracterisation of this sub offended folks in this thread - not because they want a reactionary safe space, but because you asserting that this is one smacks of bad faith.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	05/01/26 11:56 PM
3	This narrative about suicide rates further endangers vulnerable men and feminism doesn't even exist to help women, helping women is a side effect, the goal is for feminism to perpetuate itself. Completely agree. The same phenomenon can be seen sometimes with, just as an example, international development NGO’s - continuation of the organisation becomes more important than the work of the organisation. It’s especially the case when they exist in the first place for oligarchs to launder their reputations.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/12/25 05:22 AM
7	This narrative about suicide rates further endangers vulnerable men I want to acknowledge that there are a lot of feminists who are personally sincere in their motivations, goals and beliefs; but generally speaking I agree with you, because the sincerity of individuals is little match when pitted against the incentives for institutions (whether academic, governmental, cultural, etc) to consolidate and perpetuate themselves.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/12/25 05:07 AM
5	This narrative about suicide rates further endangers vulnerable men Which is why it will never achieve its goals completely. Even assuming that goal posts are never moved, ‘equality’ never redefined, the gendered oppression of women and the gendered oppression of men are interdependent phenomena, you can’t fix one without fixing the other.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/12/25 04:53 AM
44	This narrative about suicide rates further endangers vulnerable men Indeed. This is just more of the old trope - systemic explanations for womens’ struggles, and personal explanations for mens’. Taking a materialist approach to liberation for one primary gender and a bad faith idealist approach to liberation for the other will solve nothing.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/12/25 06:47 AM
1	Is The Left For Men Anymore? Can you be more specific and clarify what you mean by that?	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	31/10/25 04:40 PM
2	"Women have it harder with grief". Our friend Ana Psychology. I say this as a someone with a diagnosed mental illness, who regularly fills out the Beck self report form - I think it's important to remember that mental illness entails a state of irrationality, and so a self-reported inventory of symptoms is not going to reflect rational thought. The 'punishment feelings' part of the Beck inventory doesn't presuppose the existence of god, plenty of folks who have depression experience feeling like they're being punished. That feeling doesn't need something i…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 03:14 AM
2	A very bad video on toxic masculinity. That's difficult to answer without either being overly brief and incomplete or writing an essay. Given the choice I'd rather be overly brief and incomplete, so: My primary concern isn't whether the ideas are good or bad per se, some are good, some are bad; my concern is how they're organised into ideology, and how that effects how they can be used. A bad idea alone can be easily discarded, but a bad idea that a modernist ideology depends on is sacred. A good idea alone can be put to work however…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/10/25 02:53 AM
2	"Women have it harder with grief". Our friend Ana Psychology. Which depression inventories include mentions of atheism or god? I’m only familiar with the widely used Beck depression inventory, which doesn’t include that.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	29/10/25 06:02 AM
2	A very bad video on toxic masculinity. ‘Patriarchy’ doesn’t mean exactly the same thing to all feminists so the specific thing functioning as the principle contradiction varies, but they’re variations on a theme - it could be class conflict but mapped on to men and women, it could be mens’ oppression of women as the original oppression that all oppression mirrors or is derived from, the nuclear family, heterosexual desire, the reproduction burden etc.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/10/25 01:51 AM
1	A very bad video on toxic masculinity. Yes, Patriarchy is the focal point of C20th feminism’s grand narrative. Granted, not all feminists, either historically or contemporary think of Patriarchy that way, feminism after all is very diverse, but I think that it’s fair to say that to the most dominant varieties of C20th feminism (I’m thinking of Radical, Marxist and Liberal feminism), Patriarchy functioned as a modernist grand narrative, despite varying levels of commitment to it as such. Edit - just to clarify, I don’t think a narrati…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/10/25 11:43 PM
1	A very bad video on toxic masculinity. My perspective is that it slots into C20th feminism - an archetypically modernist ideology, complete with its own grand narrative of history, human social development and utopian future, and exists to square it with a wider array of social justice movements, which C20th feminism was often in counterproductive conflict with. That doesn’t have to result in a modernist project, but intersectionalism does that ‘squaring’, that reconciliation, by categorising its way out - it just expands the taxonom…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/10/25 11:19 PM
1	A very bad video on toxic masculinity. Intersectionalism.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/10/25 10:29 PM
1	A very bad video on toxic masculinity. In popular feminist discourse specifically about men, it doesn’t come up anymore, at least I haven’t seen it in years, and I stopped seeing it around the same time ‘toxic masculinity’ became a ubiquitous talking point. Around 2012-2016 I remember occasionally seeing feminists in popular discourse approach treating men as three-dimensional human beings with complex identities, and when they did that, it was through intersectionalist language. I don’t see that anymore. With regards to every other …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/10/25 09:41 PM
8	A very bad video on toxic masculinity. Couldn’t agree more, both are intellectual cul-de-sacs, and worse, alienate, shame and put on the defensive people the left needs to win over. Personally I have mixed feelings about intersectionalism, but it is striking that it has largely been abandoned in popular feminist discourse (though with some occasional lip service) in favour of more reductive and confrontational frameworks when thinking and talking about men specifically.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/10/25 06:47 AM
11	Who are some positive male role models for young men? Liberation from rigid gender roles, all men; just as the feminist/women’s’ lib movement has expanded all women’s freedom from rigid gender roles (though there’s plenty more to be done). There will always be nooks and crannies of rigid, traditional gender normativity (the most obvious examples being religious subcultures like American Evangelicalism or Salafi Islamic communities), because some people want to live that way, but for women in the developed world these are pockets that they either op…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/08/25 10:27 PM
14	How short sighted could they be? No man has ever come home exhausted from a long day of emotional labor Actually they have, that’s what the phrase ‘emotional labour’ was coined to describe - “the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display (that is) sold for a wage”. Most workers do emotional labour at work, and it’s exhausting, but not gendered. Absolutely disgraceful that the term was appropriated by Buzzfeed and Tik Tok feminists to refer to ‘women having to care about their partner’s emot…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/06/25 12:20 PM
10	He’s right. Don’t believe everything the British press tells you.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	08/11/24 01:06 PM
5	Do any other “non-masculine” men also struggle with a lack of acceptance? Your voice is important here, personally I often find trans masculine experiences illuminating, and reflect in sharper focus a lot of difficult things that men in general experience, but that aside and regardless of the particular perspective you can bring to discussions, you are a man, so you’re not overstepping. Your experience of being a man, while different in its particulars, is as male as a cisgender man’s. I hope we can make you feel welcome and valued here.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	06/05/24 11:14 AM
4	The wonderful people on blatantmisogyny are calling one of your threads "misogyny" Nah, they can try and boundary-police/gatekeep leftism as much as they want, they can’t even decide what kind of feminists are allowed to be ‘left’. We don’t need the approval of everyone that claims to be a feminist to be left wing, or to do left things.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	02/05/24 03:21 PM
1	Intersectionality is not coming to save men. Absolutely.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/01/24 08:24 PM
5	Intersectionality is not coming to save men. This is how I’ve always perceived it - modernists realising the taxonomy of oppression they’ve constructed is too simple to reflect (and therefore usefully interrogate) reality, so they add more categories, make the taxonomy more elaborate and sophisticated, and pat themselves on the back. The problem is that the perfect taxonomy, that does reflect reality enough to usefully interrogate problems of oppression is impossible to construct, for the same reason Soviet central planners could never acc…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	30/01/24 01:19 PM
16	Revisiting the feminist situation in South Korea Tensions are high right now but a war on the Korean Peninsula would be catastrophic for both the North and the South, and both governments are fundamentally self-interested. War is unlikely.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	29/12/23 03:29 PM